High school students in the US often learn about Latin America through the lens of the US, as a main character that exerts ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Often drawing from reproduced images or newspaper photos, she made work that quietly yet memorably critiqued her country’s ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Francoise Makuiza is one of more than 200 people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine since an ...

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder pleaded not guilty to running a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring and orchestrating ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

Colombia says former FARC rebels have not kept promises to surrender cash and gold - Officials in Colombia say that the ...

Gustavo Petro tells the BBC's Ione Wells that the United States is treating other nations as part of a US "empire", after ...