Cultures
Lawyer: Prosecutors threatened Park's confidant during probe
A lawyer for a jailed woman at the center of a South Korean political scandal says prosecutors had threatened to "annihilate" her family and used other abusive language during questioning
Poland's FM blasted for publishing internal document
Poland's foreign minister is under fire for publishing a March 2008 internal document that outlined the previous government's thinking about Russia and Ukraine
Immigrant groups to rally against Trump's planned crackdown
Immigrant rights advocates are planning demonstrations against President-elect Donald Trump's pledged hard line on immigration
Obama expands environmental legacy with 2 Western monuments
President Barack Obama expanded his environmental legacy with final day designations of national monuments on lands in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West
Obama names Utah, Nevada monuments despite GOP opposition
President Barack Obama has designated two new national monuments in Utah and Nevada at sites that have become key flashpoints over public land in the U.S. West
North Carolina fails to repeal LGBT law as culture wars rage
A bid to repeal a North Carolina law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people has fallen apart because of deep divides over partisan politics and transgender rights
LGBTQ festival canceled in Haiti amid threats, gov't order
Organizers of a cultural festival celebrating Haiti's Afro-Caribbean LGBTQ community say it has been called off due to threats of violence and a prohibition by a government commissioner
Marilyn Monroe's dresses, notes, checkbook seen before sale
Marilyn Monroe's dress from "Some Like It Hot." Handwritten notes and letters expressing the Hollywood icon's inner thoughts and, at times, despair
Section of Great Wall of China marred in name of restoration
Chinese officials are being pilloried over the smoothing-over of a crumbling but much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great Wall of China in the name of restoration
Project details impact of 1970s counterculture on Vermont
The exhibit "Freaks, Radicals & Hippies: Counterculture in the 1970s in Vermont," opens at the Vermont History Center in Barre on Sept. 24