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Nearly 60 percent of the funding pledged to help fight the Ebola epidemic has not made it to its destination, according to research published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal….
When your child is upset — a frustrated, hurt, tears-streaming-down-the-face type of upset — your first instinct is often to make it all better. Typically, this sends parents into one…
Amid a heated vaccine debate, immunization advocates are laying out the facts, not the fury, to try to silence the anti-vaccine movement. Some experts and pundits have resorted to slamming…
BUENOS AIRES — Brazil’s government on Wednesday purged the leadership of Petrobras, the national oil giant grappling with a sprawling graft scandal, amid accusations of a bribery scheme involving kickbacks…
A couple of weeks ago, I wandered into the hills north of the UC Berkeley campus and showed up at the door of a shambling Tudor that was filled with…
Want to know what the inside of an ice sheet looks like? Read the whole story at Climate Central
WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler revealed a big win for net neutrality advocates on Wednesday, asking for strong authority to enforce open Internet protections. – Wheeler added,…
In recent weeks, the White House has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening “community policing” around the country. The U.S. Conference of Mayors has coalesced around the same theme, releasing a…
Diego Corredor loves music and has always longed to play the guitar. But the 17-year-old lost his right hand at birth, rendering his dream impossible. Or so it seemed.
In Alabama, which is set to begin allowing same-sex marriages on Monday, two old foes are facing off over the future of gay rights in the state. A legal group…
The “MMXXL” trailer opens with a masked Magic Mike, played by Channing Tatum, welding metal in a suggestive manner and then breaking into a smooth dance routine to Ginuwine’s “Pony.”…
Despite your best intentions, you may simply be inclined to cheat or not to cheat. University of Oxford researchers say they have found that 57 percent of men and 47…
NEW YORK (RNS) A high-profile alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants is set to issue a sweeping manifesto against gay marriage that calls same-sex unions “a graver threat” than…
Hanan is not the woman’s real name. Though now in Turkey, not her native Syria, the 26-year-old is still so terrified and traumatized that she has not left her relatives’…
Sophia Sandoval is only 3 years old, but she’s already Wonder Woman. –
WASHINGTON — With just weeks remaining before the Department of Homeland Security runs out of money, a nonpartisan coalition of mayors is calling on the United States Senate to pass…
MARSEILLE, France — Since Marina Picasso was a child, living on the edge of poverty and lingering at the gates of a French villa with her father to plead for…
Gerald Posner’s book God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican chronicles the secret side of the Vatican Bank, the Catholic Church’s completely independent financial institution. Part…
It was just after eight o’clock on a November night when Robert McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, announced that a grand jury would not be returning an…
After a rock near South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, South Carolina, was vandalized over the weekend with hate speech, students at the school are responding with a message…
It’s being called the greatest absence of evolution ever reported: sulfur-eating bacteria that live deep in the sea haven’t changed at all in 2.3 billion years, according to a new…
Cookie is the greatest character to have slithered across our TV screens in a very long time. Might we say ever? It’s the way Taraji P. Henson spits her toxic…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was shot and killed after opening fire on a San Bernardino County sheriff’s helicopter has been identified as a former…
There are Barry Manilow fans, and then there are Barry Manilow fans. An “Oprah Show” guest named Candace is the latter. More than 10 years ago, Candace had written a…
Single dad Greg Wickherst could barely contain Izzy’s hair in a simple ponytail. – Wickherst says all parents should try to break stereotypes with their children. “I think dads should…
www.nytimes.com: WASHINGTON — In highly unusual testimony inside the federal supermax prison, a former operative for Al Qaeda has described prominent members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family as major donors…
The Irish writer James Joyce once said an excellent puzzle would be to try to cross Dublin without walking past a pub. A similar challenge for many cities in the…
Columbus Short threatened to kill Jamie Foxx … according to a woman Short got pregnant. Read the whole story at TMZ
From mathematical theory to embracing God and coincidence, these insights can move you a little closer to understanding our connection to the beyond. By Steven Strogatz, PhD, Kate Braestrup and…
CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including one of the leading activists behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to life in prison after finding them guilty on Wednesday of…