Emotional-Support Animals, or ESAs, are on the rise in America. But not all of them look like your traditional furry friends. Alpine the cockatoo shares a dorm room with college freshman Brady Lee ...
One man tells what it's like to live with schizophrenia and what he'd like people to know about the disease. If you want to talk, there is help. Call 800-273-TALK (8255).
Clashes continue between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. We spoke to the protesters to find out what motivates them to fight when they are so heavily outgunne...
Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 200,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israeli settlers. Clashes have just broken out between palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers and ...
Rabbis for Human Rights says their head, Arik Ascherman, was attacked by a Jewish settler while Ascherman was trying to extinguish a fire in a Palestinian grove. Ascherman and his group had been he...
An Eritrean man being beaten by an Israeli mob shocked many. Is this what happens when politicians encourage people to take the law into their own hands?
Israelis Rush To Self-Defense Classes And Gun Stores Amid Recent Wave Of Violent Attacks. “Stab! Stab!” This Israeli self-defense instructor demonstrates how to thwart a knife attack with a handbag...
A Jewish settler shot and killed a Palestinian teenager. As the death toll rises, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched through the streets of Jerusalem chanting "Jews and Arabs refuse to b...
The Supreme Court will be hearing several cases on the death penalty this session, and Justice Scalia has predicted it will be overturned. So what would it look like if the U.S. got rid of the deat...
Drugs in America: America has been fighting a War on Drugs for decades, but getting high is nothing new. From coffee to marijuana, here's how Americans have gotten their fix.
Syrians are desperate to flee their war-torn country. Top Google searches coming out of Syria reveal that people are still planning to seek refuge in Europe.
The world hasn't been very hospitable to refugees from Syria – a country with a long history of taking in people displaced from other parts of the world.
A master's degree sure sounds impressive, but is grad school really worth the student debt and time taken away from work experience? Here's how to weigh the pros and cons of grad school.
Refugees or migrants? A lot of words get thrown around to describe the thousands of people leaving their countries for Europe. But are they “refugees” or “migrants”?
How do you talk like a 2016 presidential candidate? If Donald Trump and Ben Carson can do it, so can you! Here's your unofficial AJ+ guide to speaking like a true presidential candidate in 2016.
Halloween costumes, halloween pumpkin carving – American Halloween is weird. Thankfully, an evil ghoul is here to educate AJ+'s resident South African, Paula, about our traditions. Mwahahaha...
Bernie Sanders has rubbed off on Hillary Clinton. Not only has she stopped combing her hair, she's railing against billionaires and Wall Street. But how tied up with big money is the Democrats' dar...
Conserving water is hard. That's why we're delighted to introduce Aquanism, the lifestyle that's all about saving water. Once you go Aquan, you'll never go back-quan!
Whether in a speech or an interview, 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has little patience for politicking. This grandpa socialist can't be bought, for better or for worse.
World leaders at the G7 summit pledged to act on climate change and have sworn to stop using fossil fuels ... in 100 years. Right around the time they've extracted them all.
Meet the man who'll save America and rid the world of “radical Islam” with his sweet Southern twang. Lindsey Graham – a Senator from South Carolina – has never been married, never sent an email and...
Party politics have imploded over free trade. Senate Democrats denied giving Obama fast-track authority to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free-trade deal involving 40% of the world's e...
How are ISIS (aka ISIL) fighters taking over cities in Iraq? Will Iran get involved? What does President Obama have to say about sending US troops to Iraq (or conducting air strikes in Syria)? AJ+ examines these questions and more.
ISIS took control of Sinjar, an Iraqi city close to the border with Syria, in August 2014, killing thousands of Yazidi residents and forcing thousands more to flee into the mountains. This week, Ku...
A suspected double suicide-bomb attack in the south Beirut neighborhood of Bourj al Barajneh has killed at least 41 people and injured 200 more. A group affiliated with ISIS claimed responsibility....
In Sweden a group of bearded men (Bearded Villains) are saying that they were mistaken for ISIS fighters during a gathering in the countryside, prompting a visit by the police.
Are nuclear smugglers trying to sell radioactive material to ISIS? That's what this undercover video from an Associated Press investigation claims to show.
The Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL) have claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombs that struck a Shia mosque in Yemen during Eid al-Adha prayers. Twenty-five people were killed in what was the...
Last August, the U.S. began bombing Iraq in collaboration with a coalition that has grown to 12 partners. In September, the airstrikes expanded to Syria. The result? 5,914 airstrikes dropped 16,931...
Two Yazidi sisters living in a refugee camp in Iraq share some of their experiences as captives of the Islamic State group aka ISIS. When ISIS attacked the Sinjar region in Iraq, approximately 200,...
A suspected ISIS suicide bomb has killed over 30 people in a Turkish town near the border with Syria. Most of the dead are young Kurdish activists. Protests have erupted in Istanbul in response, bu...
The U.S. Dept of Justice has released a video interview with Alexander Ciccolo, a suspected ISIS recruit. Ciccolo, who was arrested for gun possession, shared his views on the U.S. and ISIS.