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The snake struck a 9-year-old hiker at dusk on a nature trail in Illinois. Expensive antivenin and a helicopter ride to the hospital led to big bills that struck her parents a few weeks later.

The PSA from March For Our Lives comes as the gun debate gains momentum in the 2020 presidential campaign and days following a shooting motivated by hate at a synagogue in Poway, Calif.

It’s not clear when this will happen, or where the new capital will be located. The idea has been out there for decades, though previous leaders have been unable to accomplish the ambitious plan.

The Dentsu Aegis Network, which had been funding the ambitious, three-day 50th-anniversary music festival with headliners including Jay-Z and Santana, says that the August event will not happen.

A fictitious asteroid is the focus of a realistic exercise, as experts at the Planetary Defense Conference run through how they would respond to news of a looming asteroid strike.

China has taken dramatic steps to fight climate change, including shutting major coal power plants. But now it plans to build hundreds of coal plants abroad.

Chris Keys worries his family will run out of the insurance coverage that’s paying for their rental home as they rebuild. “We’re going to have to split the family apart,” he says.

In a food landscape dominated by multinational conglomerates like Frito-Lay and PepsiCo, the small town of Hanover, Pa., has produced homegrown snacks for a century and is still thriving today.

The move by President Maithripala Sirisena was meant to help authorities identify people, part of a new security push after a wave of bombings left the country reeling.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s party took 123 seats Sunday, short of the 176 needed to form a government. It’s uncertain what a coalition government will look like.

The world is spending more on the military since global figures became available in 1988. Together, the U.S. and China make up half of the world’s military spending.

As many as 41% of American adults deceive their partners by hiding secret debts or accounts. Therapists say it’s increasingly common, and it’s both the loss of trust and resources that hurt.

With U.S. measles cases at record highs, doctors say adults who got vaccinated prior to 1968 should consider getting revaccinated to make sure they and their neighbors are protected.

How else might foreign powers be trying to interfere with American politics beyond the ways detailed in the special counsel’s investigation report?

A day after the Chabad of Poway Synagogue was attacked, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein recounted the shooting that killed one member of the congregation and injured three others, including himself.

The Detroit native, one of the nation’s longest-serving federal judges, was a tireless champion of civil rights and civil liberties.

Lugar served six terms in the U.S. Senate. His work toward the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction earned him the nation’s highest civilian honor in 2013.

In her new book, The Moment Of Lift, the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation calls on readers to support women everywhere as a means to lift up society.

Over the past few months shootings and bombings have targeted churches, mosques and synagogues spanning three continents.

Nobody is surprised that Avengers: Endgame is a hit, but even by superhero standards, it’s had an enormous debut weekend, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Evidence is growing that 3D mammography provides more precise images and is better at detecting breast cancer — but the jury is still out on whether it saves lives.

One of TV’s most famous families laughed off measles in the 1960s. The episode has resurfaced in battles over measles vaccinations today.

Ayurvedic products and treatments based on ancient Indian healing practices are part of a multibillion-dollar industry. A yoga guru with ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has built a retail empire.

The president skipped the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in favor of a rally, where he touted economic growth and mocked Democratic presidential contenders.

Looks like this year, April showers brought April flowers. As in, a bouquet of outstanding poets. So stop and smell the roses, my friends.

A construction crane hit six cars, killing four people and injuring four others. Seattle has about 60 construction cranes operating in the city.

In an apparent move to crack down on intellectual property infringement, Chinese authorities raided a company that was allegedly manufacturing and selling $30 million worth of counterfeit Legos.

The mayor of Poway, Calif. said the shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue near San Diego was a “hate crime.” A 19-year-old man has been arrested.

The disclosure from one of the largest archdioceses in the U.S. follows similar revelations that further exposed the depth of a decades-long abuse crisis in Catholic communities across the nation.

Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement came shortly after the president of the gun rights group, Oliver North, said he would not seek a second term.

A wife and then a mother to Canadian prime ministers, she addresses her time in the public eye and her battles with mental illness in an upcoming one-woman show called Certain Woman Of An Age.

In Vermont, there are more elderly patients with medical needs than there are nursing homes. A growing number of families in the state are opening their homes to the elderly as an alternative.

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick died this week at age 35. She was an opera singer who underwent double lung transplants twice. NPR’s Scott Simon got to know her and her family.

It’s not a front-runner, but the Vox party is predicted to win some legislative seats, giving Spain its first far-right lawmakers in about four decades.

Refugee women from a group called Newcomer Kitchen are cooking traditional Levantine food for their community in Toronto — and have found a way to share it with displaced Syrians in the Middle East.

The more than 250-mile, $6 billion railway is set to cut through the northern part of Laos and is primarily financed and built by the Chinese. So far, the project has mostly employed Chinese workers.