Washington, DC - State Department Counselor Thomas Shannon and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Francisco Palmieri, with colleagues from the Department of Treasury and the Department of Justice, hosted an interagency meeting on October 20 with a high-level Honduran delegation to discuss recent U.S. government action targeting three Honduran nationals and several of their businesses, and the Government of Honduras’s response.

Washington, DC - The United States and Mexico held the 7th round of the Bilateral Dialogue on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., today. As strong bilateral partners and close neighbors, Mexico and the United States value their ability to engage in a frank and constructive dialogue on issues that are key priorities for both governments. The dialogue this year underscored the close ties between our nations and stalwart commitment to work together to protect and promote human rights.

Los Angeles, California - UCLA scientists have found that in young people with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder, the areas of the brain that are linked to social behaviors are both less developed and less-sufficiently networked than they are in young people without autism.

Davis, California - Teachers can now download free breakthrough tools for teaching math, coding and robotics with the launch of C-STEM Studio from the Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education at the University of California, Davis.

Los Angeles, California - Were dinosaurs really fast, aggressive hunters like the ones depicted in the movie “Jurassic World”? Or did they have lower metabolic rates that made them move more like today’s alligators and crocodiles? For 150 years, scientists have debated the nature of dinosaurs’ body temperatures and how those temperatures influenced their activity levels.

San Diego, California - A team from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park visited three northern white rhinos living in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya last month. These three rhinos, a male and two females, along with a single elderly female living at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, are the last remaining northern white rhinos on the planet.