President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brooke Rollins, head of the America First Policy Institute, to oversee the Department ...

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The cases appeared in California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York between July 31 and Oct. 24, the CDC said. Nine out of ...

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Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

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NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. Reports from Russian media say he fell from a 5th ...

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The strikes were the fourth on Beirut in less than a week. The escalation comes after a U.S. envoy traveled to the region this week in an attempt to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Representatives of developing countries and climate activists were furious over the outcome, saying $300 billion annually from industrialized... Negotiators at a global climate conference in Baku, ...

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected methanol poisoning... A string of deaths in Laos tied to tainted alcohol has ...