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Progress against malaria has stalled. Now a team is trying a new tactic.

The measure would limit rent increases to 7 percent annually, plus inflation, and offer renters more protection from eviction. Supporters celebrate as critics fear it will diminish housing options.

The VA has published new rules on how it will spend billions of dollars on private health care. Proponents say it will give veterans more choices, but others fear it’s a move toward privatization.

A train locomotive crashed into a barrier at the main train station in Egypt’s capital Cairo. Then, authorities say its fuel tank exploded, sending flames through the crowded travel hub.

“I knew I should stop loving him,” says Ri Yong Hui. “But I couldn’t.” She met Pham Ngoc Canh in 1971, when he was in North Korea on an internship. After years of separation, they married in 2002.

Both sides claim to have shot down the others’ warplanes in what amounts to a major escalation of tensions between the rival nuclear powers.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un are going for round two as the U.S. seeks to achieve the historically elusive goal of denuclearization by North Korea.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term, the country’s election authority said Wednesday. But his main opponent quickly said he would challenge the result in court.

Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle, both African-American women, got the most votes out of 14 candidates in Chicago’s mayoral election Tuesday night. They’ll head to a runoff election on April 2.

In an extremely rare rebuke, a government ethics watchdog refused to certify Ross’ recent financial disclosure. But he’s still in office even as other Trump officials have resigned for ethical lapses.

In prepared remarks, the president’s former lawyer calls him “a racist” and “a conman,” while apologizing for previously lying to Congress. House Republicans are expected to attack Cohen in response.

The Democratic former vice president said that he still has to decide “whether or not I am comfortable taking the family through what would be a very, very very difficult campaign.”

The booze bust in Rotterdam comes on the eve of Kim Jong Un’s meeting with President Trump in Vietnam and is a breach of U.N. sanctions banning the export of luxury goods to the communist country.

Demonstrations at universities across the country called on the president of two decades not to run again. Bouteflika has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013.

Chlorpyrifos has been linked to developmental delays in kids and other health problems. The EPA is fighting a lower court’s ruling that it must ban the pesticide, which farmers say they need.

Delegates rejected change despite a Virginia pastor’s warning: “You will be putting a virus into the American church that will make it very sick, and it will be sick quickly.”

Most patients do fine, research suggests, when the lead surgeon steps away to begin another procedure. But patients who are older or have underlying medical conditions sometimes fare worse.

According to a new report, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more than districts that serve mostly students of color in the U.S.

“These are people who have been lying at rest for years and years and to have them desecrated in such a sacrilegious way is so distressing and disturbing,” the Archbishop of Dublin told local media.

The song is quieter than might be expected from the band, and would fit right in with the solo album singer Adrianne Lenker released last fall.

Crews succeeded in clearing the tracks and a locomotive was pulling the train toward Eugene by Tuesday morning after a day-and-a-half standstill, a spokesman for the rail line owner told NPR.

NPR’s Ron Elving explains the history of the pardon, where it comes from and what the Constitution allows.

FEMA is now auctioning off trailers sent to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But that’s just one way to deal with a surplus.

The war of words started early as the president’s ex-lawyer gets rolling on a three-day marathon with members of Congress. But Michael Cohen intends to deliver documents, one person close to him said.

Claims of massive illegal voting by noncitizens have routinely been disproved, but some noncitizens end up on the voter rolls, often by accident. Now, states are trying to fix that.

For the first time, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has said that she’s open to the possibility of postponing Britain’s exit from the European Union.

“We’ll try to bring joy, positivity, beauty, drag, culture to whatever this is,” Beatrix Lestrange said, pointing to the section of the border fence directly behind her.

Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a new kind of U.S. tax policy: a wealth tax. But the policy faces serious hurdles, including lessons from a failed experiment in Europe and a constitutional challenge

The city announced that more than 9,000 marijuana-related convictions will be cleared. California voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016.

Ann Leckie’s new fantasy novel is packed with family intrigue, throne-room maneuvering and nods to Hamlet in its story of a son who comes home to find his father missing and his uncle in power.

A recent study found that Dr. Seuss books can be pretty racist. It’s highlighted a growing debate: Should schools teach classic books that may be problematic or trade them for socially conscious ones?