Kevin Sieff

President Joe Biden will create a new task force to reunite families through an executive order, following through on a campaign promise to undo some of the damage inflicted by the Trump administration’s most controversial immigration policy.

Cultivating coffee was once a way out of poverty in Guatemala’s fertile highlands. As prices crashed in recent years, a staggering number of growers have started abandoning their farms for the United States.

While the world mourned Cecil, the 13-year-old lion allegedly shot by an American hunter in Zimbabwe, an even more devastating poaching incident was quietly carried out in Kenya.

When the Taliban was toppled nearly 12 years ago and U.S. forces surged into Afghanistan, some biologists saw an opportunity. The country's far reaches had barely been examined and were thought to contain some of the world's least understood species.

The man who spends his days surrounded by dead Afghan soldiers waits in a faded shipping container across from the morgue. But Noorulah Noori rarely waits long before he is called to work.