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A federal judge says now that women can serve in combat, they should register with the selective service as men do. The current male-only registration, he says, is unconstitutional.

The U.S. has sought Meng’s extradition since she was detained in December. The Chinese embassy in Canada called the decision “a political persecution against a Chinese high-tech enterprise.”

Store managers are told to make “every effort” to offer new job options as the greeter position goes away. Workers and their families tell NPR about chaos and anxiety of being in limbo.

The rookie musher and her team of rock-star racers, with their own social media following, face heavy snow, subzero temperatures and 938 miles of Alaskan wilderness.

The U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem long served as a key diplomatic line to the Palestinian Authority. Now the U.S. is downgrading the mission and merging it with the Embassy to Israel.

Researchers are learning that attitude can have measurable effects on health. For a food allergy therapy, thinking of stressful side effects as positive signals helped patients complete the treatment.

The breakdown in talks between President Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, writes Gary Samore, an experienced negotiator with North Korea.

“Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto,” the Warmbiers wrote. Trump tweeted on Friday that he holds North Korea responsible, but he made no mention of Kim.

The pilot was captured this week after his MiG-21 fighter jet was shot down over the Pakistani-administered part of disputed Kashmir.

Two men who met Michael Jackson as children in the ’80s allege the pop star sexually abused them for years. Reliance on personal testimony is both the strength and weakness of HBO’s Leaving Neverland.

YouTube says it has already disabled comments on “tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior.”

In his new book, primate behavior researcher Frans de Waal writes that “emotions are everywhere in the animal kingdom, from fish to birds to insects and even in brainy mollusks such as the octopus.”

What are some of the leading arguments against this experiment? What happens to other species in the food chain? Isn’t developing a vaccine a better way to go?

The State Department says Hamza bin Laden is a leader of al-Qaida, and is eager to get revenge for the death of his father, Osama.

The two-term Democratic governor says in an announcement video that he’s “the only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation’s number one priority.”

The show must not go on, Broadway producer Scott Rudin says. Rudin’s lawyers claim his show, written by Aaron Sorkin, is the only one that can be performed near a major city.

Army veteran Sgt. Mickey Willenbring was injured while serving in Iraq and also developed PTSD. Running a Navajo-Churro sheep farm has helped her cope with the lingering trauma of combat.

Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of Tedeschi Trucks Band talk about deciding to make music as a married couple, relay parenting and channeling grief into art.

Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Marianne Williamson and Elizabeth Warren all support the idea of compensation for past discrimination. But the details are creating a more complex debate.

A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that many people struggle to pay for medicines and that a majority of Americans would welcome a range of government interventions to lower prices.

Federal prosecutors say the Mongols are a criminal operation and that their logo is central to their outlaw identity. But a judge ruled that the symbol is constitutionally protected.

A safety group estimates 6,227 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2018 — a 4 percent increase over 2017 and the highest mortality rate since 1990.

The U.S. maintained a strong lead in the annual poll for years until 2017, when its worldwide approval rating plummeted to 30 percent. That number increased slightly in 2018.

More than 100 notices have been sent to reporters and media organizations for breaching a judge’s suppression order in the trial of Australian Cardinal George Pell.

They initially thought it was a type of fish known to swim near Santa Barbara. But by collaborating with Australian scientists, they found it was a species never before documented in North America.

North Korea’s foreign minister gave an account of the country’s demands for a deal that differed from Trump’s account and said Pyongyang would be unwilling to change its offer.

Gap also said it plans to close about 230 stores over the next two years. The moves are the latest signs of turmoil in the retail industry, as Sears and other chains struggle to stay afloat.

As security has tightened along the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants are forced into more hostile desert areas. Volunteers who put out water and food say they’re trying to prevent deaths.

Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., engaged in a tense back and forth during a Wednesday hearing over allegations of what constitutes racist behavior.

Following several measles outbreaks this winter, there is a movement among some states to make it more difficult for people to claim nonmedical exemptions to vaccine laws.

The California utility expects state investigators will find its damaged equipment started last November’s fire, which killed at least 85 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.

The measure seeks to close the so-called “Charleston loophole” that allowed an avowed white supremacist to buy a gun he used to kill 9 people at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston. S.C., in 2015.

The suspect was allegedly recruited by a Russian intelligence officer and engaged in criminal activity since 2017, the Swedish Security Service says.

For years, NASA has had to rely on Russian vehicles to get astronauts to the International Space Station. That could soon change if the flight test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule succeeds.