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The Time Magazine Person of the Year is an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s regime. She accuses the government of furthering a ‘descent to tyranny.’

The Social Security Administration says it’s trying to clean up its records. But immigration advocates fear the real objective is to expose undocumented immigrants at work.

Patrick Murphy, who escaped from prison and participated in a robbery that led to a murder, was scheduled to be executed Thursday. The court said he had the right to a spiritual adviser of his choice.

In a wide-ranging speech, the president touched on the recently completed Mueller investigation, but also on health care, the Green New Deal and immigration.

The delay will give Congress time to work on a possible permanent pathway for thousands of Liberians to remain in the U.S.

A federal judge already has ruled that mental health care for inmates in Alabama’s prisons is “horrendously inadequate.” Now he’s looking at the system’s response to 15 suicides in the past 15 months.

Harold Martin, a 54-year-old Navy veteran, was arrested in 2016. Authorities said he amassed a staggering trove of government documents, endangering U.S. national security.

“He wants to avoid the risk of contagion for the people, not for him,” Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti told reporters on Thursday.

Some panel members said they don’t agree that breathing sooty air can cause premature death. The panel’s draft recommendations to the EPA would change how it assesses the dangers of air pollution.

A new study predicts how far north these insects could live if climate change goes unchecked.

Those who were freed were among activists who appeared in court on Wednesday. Several allege they’ve been subjected to sexual abuse and torture throughout their imprisonment. The trials are ongoing.

House Democratic committee chairs set an April 2 deadline for Attorney General Barr to give Congress the full Mueller report. Committee aides won’t say if they will subpoena it if DOJ doesn’t comply.

Wells Fargo announced Thursday that CEO and President Tim Sloan will step down immediately. The company’s general counsel Allen Parker was elected to run the company until a new CEO is selected.

The number of alien species, likely brought by ship traffic, stunned scientists. And they suspect that the foothold of such creatures may have been underestimated in other tropical habitats, too.

Temple University officials say the vast majority of students who are part of a mumps outbreak had been immunized previously with a vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella.

Staff at Boston’s Logan International informed customers of prolonged delays Wednesday night — only to eventually board the waiting Wow aircraft themselves and shut the door.

Initial numbers show the pro-military party winning the most votes. Official results won’t come before May, and it’s not yet clear which party will have the seats required to form a government.

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist who started seeing a therapist herself after the man she thought she would marry unexpectedly broke up with her. Her new book is Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

Gun rights groups had a sought a hold on the ban, which went into effect on Tuesday. The court denied the second such appeal, allowing the ban to proceed while challenges move through the courts.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development says Facebook allowed advertisers to use their platform to unlawfully discriminate by restricting which users can see housing ads.

The U.S. economy grew more slowly at the end of 2018 than initially thought. “GDP growth is slowing from unsustainable rates,” one economist says. The slowdown is expected to continue this year.

Ruth Wilson stars in the PBS drama based on the story of her own grandmother, who discovered, after 22 years of marriage, that her spy-turned-author husband may have been married to someone else.

Female mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood detect people partly by using a special olfactory receptor to home in on our sweat. The finding could lead to new approaches for better repellents.

Wow Air surprised its passengers Thursday, saying it’s going out of business and ceasing operations. Travelers are scrambling to book other tickets — and wondering about refunds.

At least one person was seen falling from the building, as a large crowd on the street watched people try to climb down using ropes or cables.

Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida’s Panhandle was hit by Hurricane Michael in October. Then Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was inundated by flooding this month.

“It’s great advice to tell people to use a crosswalk, but that’s not very useful if the crosswalk doesn’t exist,” says Tom Ellington of the Pedestrian Safety Review Board in Macon, Ga.

Nearly half of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are women. And the men who are running are having to answer questions about gender in a way they’ve never had to before.

Forty years ago, the U.S. nuclear industry suffered its worst nuclear accident. Today, the remaining reactor at Three Mile Island is slated to close because of cheaper competition from natural gas.

Walmart, GM, Google, Johnson & Johnson and other corporations are forming a trade organization to promote the interests of renewable energy buyers.

The verdict represents the second time a jury has decided in favor of a multimillion-dollar damage award after concluding that Roundup caused cancer.