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Pro-democracy protests, now in their 10th straight weekend, are posing one of the biggest tests to China’s leadership since the 1997 handover from Britain.

At approximately 6:30 a.m. Saturday, the wealthy financier accused of sex trafficking was found unresponsive in his jail cell by an apparent suicide. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The Massachusetts senator introduced a sweeping gun control plan Saturday. She also said people have to maintain pressure on President Trump for more immediate change.

A day camp in Nashville uses “constraint-induced therapy” to help kids who have physical weakness on one side — often because of a stroke or cerebral palsy — gain strength and independence.

Dion Green is a Dayton resident grappling with double loss. His father was killed last weekend in the Dayton mass shooting. Just months before, his house was badly damaged by tornadoes.

The Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon has been without safe drinking water since late May, and some people don’t have any running water at all.

President Trump says he supports “really intelligent background checks.” It’s unclear what exactly that means, but support for universal background checks is near universal among Americans.

The suspect was in his car, stopped at an intersection when law enforcement officials pulled up behind him. That’s when he got out with his hands in the air. He allegedly said he targeted Mexicans.

The season begins later this year. The state joins Tennessee and Kentucky as the third state east of the Mississippi River to permit sandhill crane hunting.

When she was 19, Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.

Nick Cumer, an intern at Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, had just accepted a full-time job with the nonprofit. He and his colleagues went for a night out on the town to celebrate when violence struck.

The scientists captured the acrobatic jumps of a tiny maggot-like creature with high-speed cameras to figure out how it does this trick with no arms, legs, or wings.

The remains of Col. Roy Knight Jr., shot down in 1967, arrived in Dallas on Thursday to an emotional audience.

Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is making the case for bipartisan legislation to lower seniors’ drug costs. Many Republicans oppose it over free market principles.

Following shootings at two store locations, Walmart said in an internal memo that it would take down all imagery and stop playing videos that depicted violence.

Formal charges of making a terrorist threat in the first degree are pending against a 20-year-old, who police say wanted to cause chaos, as opposed to kill people.

The president said the issue “isn’t a question of NRA, Republican or Democrat” and indicated he could split from the National Rifle Association.

How do we understand the music of the early 20th Century if we consider Bessie Smith — seriously — as an actress?

Where does the term nappy come from and why does it have such negative connotations? Is it possible to reclaim a word that has been used as a slur for so long?

That’s the new rule in Ferozepur, a district in India’s Punjab state. As proof you have to submit a photo of yourself with your saplings.

Opponents of President Trump are increasing public pressure on those who contribute to the Trump reelection campaign. One major Trump donor faces a call for a boycott of a business he owns, SoulCycle.

Critics worry the administration’s delays come at a steep cost: Medicare is continuing to pay for millions of unnecessary exams and patients are being subjected to radiation for no medical benefit.

Courts have permanently blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. But the Census Bureau is continuing to send surveys that ask about citizenship status.

The longest-running public service campaign is tied to a reduction in wildfires, but in some ways Smokey’s message may have worked too well. Here’s how he’s changed.

The storm, currently categorized as a super typhoon with sustained winds of 130 mph, is expected to make landfall near the city of Ningbo early Saturday.

In a statement Thursday, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi said detainees were asked whether they had children and were provided with cellphones to arrange for their care.

President Trump named Joseph Maguire shortly after the deputy director of national intelligence resigned. Maguire is currently director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

“What we can’t do is fail to pass something,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told WHAS radio. “The urgency of this is not lost on any of us.”

John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration’s failed push for a citizenship question, is set to leave the department, a person familiar with the matter tells NPR.

“It’s crazy to know that he died alone in a country he’d never been in,” Jimmy Aldaoud’s sister told NPR. He had arrived in the U.S. with his Iraqi family when he was a very young child.

Researchers in the U.K. found that making eye contact with the hungry gulls may deter them from swiping your food.

A federal court said Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over face recognition technology. Facebook said users can choose to turn off the feature. It plans to seek a review of the ruling.