Advocates asked lawmakers for funding and resources for missing and endangered American Indians , Alaska Natives and Indigenous people.

Lawmakers expressed willingness to reach across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions.

Homicide rates among American Indian and Alaska Native people were nearly four times higher than homicide rates for white people.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin makes impassioned defense of women in combat.

Comments follow Pete Hegseth , President-elect's pick to lead the Department of Defense , arguing that the U.S. "should not have women" in combat roles.

Women began being able to be in ground combat units in 2013 after the Pentagon rescinded a ban on women in these roles.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he will share technology to combat seaweed infestation with Caribbean nations.

Guyana is headquarters for the 15 -member Caribbean trade bloc known as Caricom .

Modi promises to help the region in areas including health, energy and agriculture.

He also announces more than 1,000 scholarships over the next five years for trade bloc nations.

Massive crowds estimated by the police at 42,000 gathered at Parliament .

Lawmakers want to reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty signed between the British and Indigenous Maori .

Critics see in it a desire to reverse decades of policies aimed to empower Maori , who make up around 20% of population.

Banda Aceh is known as the city of 1,001 coffee shops in Indonesia 's most conservative province.

Qurrata Ayuni opened Morning Mama last year to create a space for women to work or meet friends.

The 28-year-old says she and her baristas provide an alternative to rowdy, smoke-filled male haunts.

She employs five women alongside two men.

The Michigan Prenatal Stress Study examined 224 pregnant women in their second trimester.

Women under recent life stress showed elevated levels of Proteobacteria , while those with depression had higher amounts of Spirochaetes .

The researchers also found increased levels of Firmicutes bacteria and Dialister species in women with anxiety and depression symptoms.

John DeLeo enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17 and was aboard the USS Missouri when the war ended on Sept. 2, 1945 .

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed held a special medal ceremony at his Cranston office to give him his "overdue" military honors.

He plans to participate in the 80th anniversary commemoration of the surrender in 2025 .

The largest cognitive performance study of professional astronauts to date reveals that while some mental processes slow down during six-month stays on the International Space Station .

Overall cognitive function remains stable with no signs of lasting impairment.

Attention was only affected early in the mission, while processing speed didn’t return to normal until after the astronauts returned to Earth .

WHO authorizes the first mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo .

Mpox, related to smallpox, mostly causes symptoms including fever, rash, lesions and fatigue.

Children are almost four times more likely to die from the newest form of mpox first detected in eastern Congo earlier this year .

Researchers from the University of Bristol found that when humans and robots move together harmoniously through space, it builds mutual trust and improves teamwork.

The findings could help emergency services work more effectively with robot partners in the future.

By monitoring movement patterns, robots could detect early warning signs of trust issues and take steps to repair the relationship before it impacts the mission.