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new video loaded: In L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and Frustration transcript Back transcript In L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and Frustration Business owners and locals in Little Tokyo say they are conflicted: frustrated as they scrub graffiti and clean up after looting, but also holding a deep sense of solidarity with anti-immigration … Read more

What We Know About the L.A. Protests So Far

Vietnam just abandoned its policy limiting families to two children. China now says, “Three is best.” The Russian government is targeting child-free lifestyles. And the White House is mulling baby bonuses. Many countries are trying to reverse record low birthrates, but a new report from the United Nations Population Fund contends that governments are operating … Read more

The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. A majority of those deaths involve a single substance: paraquat, a pesticide widely used for weed control that is lethal to humans in amounts as small as one swallow. Pesticides are among the leading means … Read more