To an Aboriginal Australian, homeland is not just where you are born. It is where you will die and be buried. It is the center of gravity, heart and soul, beginning and end. While covering this month’s story on these first Australians, photographer Amy Toensing was invited to document a …

Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel has been both the story of the season and offseason, so Dan Rubenstein looks into the specifics of the events surrounding Johnny Football and how it points to the young QB’s inevitable transfer away from College Station.

“A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street, in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist attack.”* Two men were caught butchering, hacking, and according to some- beheading- a soldier walking down a South London Street …

“On Wednesday, the Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time that four Americans were killed in drone strikes since 2009 as part of U.S. counterterrorism activities surrounding al Qaeda . Of the four, only one of them, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted, according to Attorney General Eric Holder in a …

“It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined – in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy over the DOJ’s pursuit of the phone records of …

“White House efforts to soft-pedal the danger from a new “underwear bomb” plot emanating from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the news they needed most to contain.”* Politician and CIA officials are quick to blame the AP for exposing a U.S. mole for the foiled “underwear bomb” plot in Yemen. …

“A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was fatally shot early Wednesday in an unusual encounter with the FBI and other law enforcement officers in his apartment in Orlando.”* Ibragim Todashev, an alleged acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was taken into custody by the FBI for …

The Young Turks in conjunction with the Center for Investigative Reporting, funded by the MacArthur Foundation are proud to present a new series of ivestigative documentaries, premiering on: http://www.youtube.com/user/TYTinvestigates In our first of the series: Who Took Down Stockton? Stockton, California, became the largest city in American history to file …

In honor of the legendary host’s 25 years with the National Geographic Bee, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite clips. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world’s premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets …

May 22, 2013—Quick: Because Earth bulges at the Equator, the point that is farthest from Earth’s center is the summit of a peak in Ecuador. Name this peak. Get the answer and see the climax of the 2013 National Geographic Bee, hosted by Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek. This Bee marks Trebek’s …