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The family of Philando Castile, a man killed by Minnesota police during a traffic stop, speak out.

India Clarke was a teenager when she got the tattoo near the corner of her eye. The image was so faint, blue ink on black skin, that her family barely could make it out at first. It was a symbol of metamorphosis. "She said butterflies are always flying away, always free," a friend of hers told me. And this butterfly hinted at life beyond her body.

Southern charm is a force to be reckoned with as far as Travel + Leisure readers are concerned.

The annual San Fermin festival and its world-famous "Running of the Bulls" have been around for centuries. Late photographer Inge Morath was in Spain more than 60 years ago to take these pictures.

One of the gunmen involved in the deadly hostage standoff at a Dhaka cafe last Friday has been identified as the son of a politician in Bangladesh's ruling party.

After spending a week in intensive care at a Los Angeles hospital for a severe throat infection, comedian Sarah Silverman says she's "insanely lucky to be alive."

It was the popular singer Cesaria Evora who first introduced journalist Marc Serena to Cape Verde's most famous transgender activist: Tchinda Andrade.

A month to go before the Olympic Games get started, and reports have emerged of a new drug-resistant bacteria growing in the waters around Rio de Janeiro. The news is yet another cause for concern for the world's athletes and spectators alike. But are these Games, as some seem to suggest, doomed to failure?

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's campaign posters, bumper stickers and ads will have another name on them by the end of the month and the speculation has been running high. However, all the talk begs the question of whether or not these choices will matter much to the final result.

Most shops and banks closed and the streets of Harare were deserted Wednesday as Zimbabweans staged a national protest against the government.

Occasionally Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

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He turns 35 next month but Roger Federer proved at Wimbledon on Wednesday that he isn't too old to engineer a rousing comeback.

Senator Ted Cruz's final email to supporters before dropping out in May was titled, "What I really think about Donald." In it, he called Trump "a pathological liar."

President Barack Obama will give remarks Wednesday on Afghanistan, the White House announced.

Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot to death as he lay on the ground with two police officers on top of him Tuesday morning.

When Republican naysayers were mocking Donald Trump's improbable White House campaign before the primaries started, Newt Gingrich was reading "Trump: The Art of the Deal."

Britain's long-awaited inquiry into the country's involvement in the Iraq War will be released today, placing former prime minister Tony Blair's actions in leading the country into a deeply unpopular conflict under comprehensive scrutiny.

Donald Trump walked up to a gold genie lantern, adorned with glowing red lights, and rubbed the side of it. Smoke swirled around him and a cracking sound filled the cavernous hall. On a theater-sized screen, the genie appeared.

As with so many similar cases, those protesting the killing of Alton Sterling believe they've seen enough to draw the conclusion that he died at the hands of overzealous police.