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Blacks and Hispanics are exposed to higher levels of air pollution than whites, yet whites consume more of the goods and services that cause it, according to new research.

She was found in her dorm at Stanford University last week. Her family says it was suicide. “She saw herself as a warrior, and it was do or die,” her sister, Christine Catlin, tells NPR.

The remark made less than a month before Israeli legislative elections prompted many people — including Israel’s president and the star of Wonder Woman — to defend Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority.

The decision to hold the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Wisconsin is a symbolic choice for a party that’s been working to reverse its 2016 losses in the industrial Midwest.

Ordained Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor says that teaching the different religions of the world changed her students’ understanding of faith — as well as her own.

The model has been involved in two deadly crashes in less than five months. An analyst says the crashes are unlikely to drastically affect Boeing’s sales since the planes are ordered years in advance.

It’s the second disaster involving a Max 8 aircraft in less than six months, prompting China and several other countries to ground their fleets of the planes.

President Trump’s 2020 budget proposal, released on Monday, calls for $8.6 billion in new border wall funding, along with increased military spending and deep cuts to domestic programs.

Yes, it’s been said before, but this time it looks to be real. Britain’s Parliament is scheduled to hold crucial votes that will clarify what happens next. Here’s what to know.

Silicon Valley has emerged early as a presidential campaign issue among Democrats at SXSW. Calls to regulate tech put the party in an awkward position, given its reliance on tech donors.

Salvatore Scibona’s new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.

A tiny fraction of American women choose home birth, but that number is inching up. And in some social circles it’s downright trendy. One pregnant woman investigates the pros and cons.

Getting DNA into plant cells is tricky. Researchers have tried using infectious bacteria, as well as gene guns that shoot gold bullets. Then a physicist came up with a new approach almost by accident.

Jennifer Carrieri’s twin was shot and murdered in an empty parking lot in 1996, but nobody knows why. This year, Carrieri put up billboards in Baltimore, Md., in the hopes of solving the cold case.

The youth-led movement is protesting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for re-election. The 82-year-old leader has been in power since 1999.

Many U.K. pubs are struggling to stay in business, so concerned villagers are banding together to stage a takeover.

The Indianapolis-based drugmaker said Monday that it would offer a generic version of Humalog insulin, one of its best-selling medicines. The move could help blunt criticism about high prices.

Pakistan has long supported militants fighting to its east in India and to its west in Afghanistan. The country says it’s cracking down on militants, but many critics are skeptical.

Brendan Johnston refused to compete against Jaslynn Gallegos because of her gender. Gallegos went on to place fifth but is frustrated to be treated differently as an athlete because she’s a girl.

Misleading claims, particularly about voter fraud, have intensified ongoing debates about voting rights and election security. Some election experts say the rhetoric erodes voter confidence.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was headed from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on a regularly scheduled flight when it lost contact with the tower minutes after takeoff.

With some parts of Venezuela still experiencing power outages, opposition leader Juan Guaidó and President Nicolás Maduro held rival rallies in Caracas.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw’s ruling expanded the number of families potentially eligible for relief under a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.

Meant to increase security in Europe, the decision to implement a screening process was announced in 2018. But confusion arose after several media outlets labeled it a “visa.”

An Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been attacked for a second time in the past month, as the country deals with one of the largest outbreaks of the epidemic in history.

Since da Vinci’s death, no three-dimensional work of art by him has ever been identified. That is, until now, say curators in Italy.

Goldman Sachs, Virgin Atlantic and Target are the latest employers to introduce more flexible dress codes. The trend may be tied to the rise of younger workers.

Thousands of teens suffer from a rare chronic pain condition that makes everyday life excruciating. Some are trying a counterintuitive treatment approach: Load up on pain until you learn to ignore it.

Also in this week’s education roundup: a new head for Federal Student Aid, and a California law aims to make charter schools more transparent.

Politicians who decided this week not to run would have offered voters some of the same attributes as the former vice president, spurring speculation there’s a possible clearing of the field going on.

A federal judge rejects the government’s argument that identifying and reuniting families separated before the zero tolerance policy was announced is too burdensome.

The 57-year-old offered no clues about what prompted him to lace coworkers’ food with toxic metals. A psychologist said he “seemed to me like a scientist who was testing substances on a guinea pig.”