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Opponents of decriminalization say the multi-billion-dollar industry exploits sex workers. But activists and academics say legalization would protect workers and benefit public health.

Police say they have arrested a 17-year-old male for allegedly making threats targeting specific ethnic groups at Virginia’s Charlottesville High School.

Moore, a conservative commentator and former Trump campaign adviser, has joined the president in criticizing the central bank. “The Fed is sucking the oxygen out of the economy,” Moore has said.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Friday that ISIS’ territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria. Even so, its threats remain.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who ousted an elected government in 2014, is seeking to remain in power. But many analysts say the military has sought to silence opposition voices.

While Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be dominating the policy debate, there is little evidence that voters are rewarding politicians who flesh out their plans over others with strong personal brands.

The president signed an executive order on Thursday conditioning research grants on “compliance with the First Amendment.”

A week after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, friends and family have been gathering for funerals and to listen to the Muslim call to prayer.

The president said he was ordering the Treasury Department to withdraw “additional large scale sanctions” against North Korea on the same day Pyongyang quit a liaison office with South Korea.

Several states require doctors who perform medical abortions to tell their patients the procedure can be “reversed” with progesterone. There’s an absence of evidence to support that contention.

European Union leaders gave the country two different deadlines, depending on whether U.K. lawmakers can agree on a path forward. One deadline is in two months; the other in two weeks.

The Trump administration wants to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing. But health economists say the administration’s call to tie prices to what other nations pay might work better.

The information was held in a readable format within the company’s internal data storage systems. Facebook says it “found no evidence to date” of abuse.

The island nation, still reeling from last Friday’s attacks, heard a message of healing amid plans to change gun laws in hopes of preventing future attacks.

Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is investigating alleged violations of federal records laws. Jared Kushner’s lawyer disputes some of Cummings’ assertions about what he told the committee.

The decision would allow super PACs to raise money by using a candidate’s name, even if none of the money ends up going to support that candidate.

Pregnant women in prison face difficult circumstances, and data on their pregnancies has been scarce. New research lays the groundwork for addressing this neglected public health issue.

Black students at San Francisco State College walked out in a protest that led to the rise of ethnic studies departments at colleges and universities around the country.

A former top executive for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. tells NPR he left his job because of relentlessly harsh depictions of Muslims and immigrants in Murdoch’s media properties, especially Fox News.

From Presidents Ulysses Grant to Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton and Trump, a number of independent investigators have looked into allegations too hot for normal processes.

Postpartum depression hits low-income women especially hard. Will a promising new drug, Zulresso, become affordable and accessible enough to help them?

More than 400 people have been killed from the storm and subsequent flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

The casualties included many children, as a vessel carrying Nowruz holiday revelers capsized in the Tigris River. Authorities said the boat appeared not to have had life vests on board.

Studies on the genetics of human diseases have focused largely on people of European descent. Researchers say this lack of diversity is bad science and exacerbates health inequities.

Across the country, young people are proudly sharing their side hustles and main gigs, from baking wedding cakes to growing ginger to laying tile.

A decade ago, one university started putting pronouns on course rosters. Today, it’s not alone.

The protesters have been detained in the months since demonstrations against the government of President Daniel Ortega began nearly a year ago.

Millennials are drinking less, spurring beverage companies to create alternatives to traditional cocktails — using herbs, spices, citrus and veggies to craft unique flavors for nonalcoholic drinks.

Describing what he called a kidnapping, Guaidó said weapons had been planted at Roberto Marrero’s house and that he should be freed immediately.

Historic flooding in the Midwest has caused unprecedented damage and led to at least three deaths.

Tamara Lanier, the descendant of an enslaved man known as Renty, is suing Harvard for damages. She wants the university to return the photos of her ancestor.