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Homer bluegrass band Burnt Down House shared a song during the 2019 Alaska Folk Festival.

Listen to this audio sampler with Beth Chrisman, who writes songs, sings and plays fiddle in the band out of Austin, Texas.

The United States is beefing up security at some federal installations across the country, the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday.

Saying his country will do “whatever is needed” to help fight the extremist group ISIS, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has reached what local media are calling “a point of determination.”

The case of a Belgian man who sees himself as a threat to society — and wants to die — is putting new focus on Belgium’s health care and justice system, as well as its laws allowing euthanasia.

President Obama’s prime-time speech prompted generally cautious support from the editorial pages of major newspapers across the country this morning.

Rescue workers in Nicaragua were trying to reach four trapped miners in the gold and silver mine in the country’s south-central city of Bonanza, after 22 others were freed.

Beijing has rejected U.S. claims that one of its fighter jets acted recklessly in intercepting a U.S. Navy maritime patrol plane in the South China Sea last week, warning Washington to curtail or discontinue “close surveillance” flights near Chinese territory.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Russian troops entered his country on Thursday.

The U.S. said Monday that all of Syria’s declared chemical weapon stockpile has been destroyed.