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Iraqi forces are fighting to retake Mosul from ISIS, but could ISIS lose the battle and still win the war? Seth Jones from the Rand corporation looks at other insurgencies in history for answers.

Want to fool facial recognition software? Try some groovy glasses. It turns out patterned glasses can lead the program to misidentify people.

In North Dakota the Army Corps of Engineers met with Native American leader hoping to avoid more confrontations between police and Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.

Writer and critic Thomas Mallon, who happens to be Republican, imagined the 2016 presidential campaign as a novel in a recent New Yorker article. He talks to NPR's Scott Simon.

One day after South Korea's President Park Geun-hye issued a new apology over one of the most bizarre political scandals in recent memory, demonstrators call for her resignation.

Chicago and Cleveland are both cities with real problems. But while their baseball teams played out the World Series, Indians fans and Cubs fans connected and commiserated with each other.

The movie Trolls features not just big hair but surprisingly great music — and a fair bit of scrapbooking. The film, by a veteran animation director, aims to balance feel-good fun with offbeat humor.

Nearly all 50 states have asked for federal assistance in protecting their voting systems and Ohio has asked the National Guard for help.

For the past two years this election season has been relentless. And it turns out it's especially tough for stand up comedians. Washington, D.C. comedian Rob Maher explains.

Scott Paul and Gerald Taylor of the Alliance for American Manufacturing discuss a report on how manufacturing decline in the U.S. has left many African-American communities spiraling toward poverty.