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![<p>UN Secretary-General António Guterres poses for a photo at the UN Headquarters, July 22, 2025.</p>]()
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What Does the CDC Do?
![<p>The CDC’s Emergency Operations Center amid the Ebola crisis in 2014.</p>]()
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What Is the U.S. Federal Reserve?
![<p>The Federal Reserve is the most powerful U.S. economic institution.</p>]()
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How Vaccines Changed the World
![TOPSHOT-PAKISTAN-HEALTH-VACCINE-POLIO]()
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The UN Security Council
![<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar addresses a special Security Council meeting, August 5, 2025.</p>]()
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Africa’s ‘Leaders for Life’
![<p>A worker throws away campaign posters of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.</p>]()
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How the U.S. Patrols Its Borders
![<p>A vehicle patrols near a sign reading “United States of Mexico limits” in New Mexico.</p>]()
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What Is Temporary Protected Status?
![<p>Activists listen to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak about TPS outside the Capitol.</p>]()
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What Does the G7 Do?
![<p>G7 leaders pose for a photo during the group’s June 2025 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.</p>]()
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What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
![BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro]()
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What Is NATO?
![<p>A view of the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium in May 2018. </p>]()
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China’s Growing Influence in Latin America
![<p>Chinese shipping giant COSCO owns a majority stake in a new megaport in Chancay, Peru.</p>]()
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The U.S. Trade Deficit: How Much Does It Matter?
![<p>A worker stands in front of steel piping at a plant in China’s Hebei Province.</p>]()
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What Are Tariffs?
![<p>An employee works at a steel factory in China’s Shandong Province, in January 2024.</p>]()
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The Role of the ICC
![<p>Lina Selg/Pool/Reuters</p>]()
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Why China-Taiwan Relations Are So Tense
![<p>A man in Beijing watches a news program about Chinese military drills surrounding Taiwan.</p>]()
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How the U.S. Asylum Process Works
![<p>U.S. Border Patrol processes migrants seeking asylum in Yuma, Arizona.</p>]()
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China’s Environmental Crisis
![<p>Chinese men pull a tricycle in a neighborhood near to a coal power plant in Shanxi, China.</p>]()
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What Is the FDA’s Role in Public Health?
![<p>The FDA operates laboratories across the country to inspect food, medical, tobacco, and other products.</p>]()
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Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State
![<p>Somaliland’s Independence Monument in Hargeisa depicts a hand holding a map of the area.</p>]()
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Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis
![Aguadilla, where the community is a big family, you will]()
