Cameroon’s colonial past catches up with it

The Central African nation was once ruled by both Britain and France, and now a teachers’ strike is helping expose Cameroon’s lingering divide.

With reusable sanitary pads, Ugandan girls stay in school

About 30 percent of Ugandan girls from poor families miss school because they don’t have sanitary towels, but female students at one school are taking matters into their own hands.

US Syria strike sends strong message to North Korea

The missile attacks against Syria demonstrate the US is willing to use military force if necessary, according to a senior Obama administration official.

Mission accomplished, but now what?

Surgical strikes have a spotty success record so we ask the experts whether the US assault on a Syrian military airfield last Tuesday could alter the course of the six-year-old Syrian conflict.

Is the Chesapeake Bay about to get ‘trashed and dirty’?

President Donald Trump wants to cancel a decades-old program that’s improved water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the country, as he follows up on a campaign pledge to roll back water-quality regulations and cut EPA funds.

What Tomahawk ‘smart’ missiles are capable of

Here’s the rundown on Tomahawk missiles, which the US launched at a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of Syrian civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun.

For refugees in US, this is the most essential skill of all

The United States admitted 84,995 refugees in the last fiscal year, and many of them will take advantage of an adult education program to learn the most basic skill they need to thrive in America.