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By Tara John, CNN WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK The Delta variant, a more transmissible and possibly more dangerous strain, now makes up more than half of all new infections in the United States. It is of global concern, forcing some Asian-Pacific nations to impose tough restrictions, yet countries are taking different strategies on masks. The

By Mario Medrano, Natalie Gallón, Tatiana Arias and Samantha Beech, CNN A sixth Nicaraguan presidential candidate was detained along with student leaders and activists late Monday, in what the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights called a “night of terror.” Four months ahead of a crucial election, the government of long-time President Daniel Ortega has detained

By Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu, CNN Thousands of prisoners — including senior al Qaeda and Taliban figures — remain in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison under the sole control of Afghan authorities, following the swift departure of US combat troops from the sprawling compound that houses it, Afghan and security officials told CNN Tuesday. While

By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu and Tim Lister, CNN Located an hour north of Kabul, Bagram was for nearly 20 years the hub of America’s war in Afghanistan. Now it is eerily quiet. The last US combat troops have left and the Afghan government is trying to work out how to use the sprawling complex

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. Personal Birth date: December 17, 1936 Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina Birth name: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Father: Mario Bergoglio Mother: Regina (Sivori) Bergoglio Religion: Roman Catholic Other Facts The first Jesuit

By Lily Lee and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Chinese astronauts on Sunday successfully carried out the country’s first spacewalk outside their space station — a significant milestone in its rapidly expanding space program. The spacewalk is only the second by Chinese astronauts since the Shenzhou 7 manned mission of 2008, which was conducted outside a spacecraft,

By Angela Dewan, CNN The tiny town of Lytton has come to hold a grim record. On Tuesday, it experienced Canada’s highest-ever temperature, in an unprecedented heat wave that has over a week killed hundreds of people and triggered more than 240 wildfires across British Columbia, most of which are still burning. Lytton hit 49.6

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When I was a kid, field trips to the local science museum or planetarium were more appealing than any playground. Disposable camera in hand, I marveled that a dinosaur fossil could tower over me in one room while an Apollo capsule seemed to float in the next. The things I learned

By Kristen Rogers, CNN You might think fossilized feces are only full of crap, but new research on one specimen has turned up a hidden treasure: a 230-million-year-old, previously undiscovered beetle species. Named Triamyxa coprolithica, the tiny beetles are also the first insects to be described from fossilized feces — or coprolites — and were

By Sara Spary, CNN Researchers in Austria may have found an unlikely solution to the problem of plastic pollution: cows, and the microbes found inside their stomachs. Researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, the Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology and the University of Innsbruck found that common plastics

By Amy Wray, CNN Megan Fox’s kids steal the spotlight, Heidi Klum gives a standing ovation and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta hosts “Jeopardy!” These are the must-watch videos of the week. Unexpected guests Megan Fox’s kids derailed her efforts to promote her upcoming film “Till Death” on NBC’s “Today” by sneaking into the background of