07/16/2016 1:21 pm ET Many are asking what it means for the future of a country already on uneasy ground following a recent string of terrorist attacks and political shake-ups. 

• Global News Blog Why does Turkey blame a Pennsylvania cleric for the coup attempt?

07/17/2016 7:00 am ET The Minnesota police shooting is a tale of two cities, and it is not alone. 

• Dallas PD's uncertain example on race and policing
• Beyond protests, St. Paul shows how police and community can find solutions

07/16/2016 10:52 am ET Life goes on, but the mood is somber along the stretch of road where dozens were killed and injured by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel during Bastille Day festivities.

• Nice attack: French struggle to maintain normal life amid new threat
• Lessons from Nice: Syria not the end of the road in battle against ISIS

07/17/2016 7:00 am ET Gay couples worry about rejection when they search for wedding vendors. A new suite of businesses is growing to serve them – and head off conflict. Part 7 of seven.

• Is wedding photography art? A wrinkle in religious liberty debate.
• For those on front lines of religious liberty battle, a very human cost
• In Mississippi gay rights battle, both sides feel they are losing
• Behind legal fight over religious liberty, a question of conscience
• A florist caught between faith and financial ruin
• How the push for gay rights is reshaping religious liberty in America

07/16/2016 8:14 am ET Sen. Tim Scott, the South's first African-American senator since the 19th century, gave a trio of speeches this week that resonated on both sides of the aisle – and beyond Washington.

07/15/2016 7:00 am ET IS won over some Fallujah residents with promises of Sunni empowerment and improved services. But as funds dried up and brutality increased, so did defiance.

07/14/2016 5:33 pm ET Mike Pence, governor of Indiana, is non-abrasive where Trump is human sandpaper. He’s calm, and served 12 years in Congress. Perhaps most important, the Republican right trusts him.

07/15/2016 7:00 am ET Activists in both South Africa and Kenya are drawing on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile to highlight the global echoes of their own social justice causes.

07/15/2016 8:00 am ET After nearly two months of the most recent round of violent street protests, highway blockades, and school closures, members of a dissident teachers union and government officials sat down to talk future steps.

07/14/2016 3:35 pm ET The brutal Brexit referendum campaign has left British politics riven between Leave and Remain, Tory and Labour, London and Brussels.

07/14/2016 3:28 pm ET When Babak Arzani fled Iran and reached Hungary in 2010, he found himself in a foreign land where he didn't speak the language. He helped found a group that supports the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers.