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They are early risers and hard workers. Some are the first in their family to go to college. Many are financially independent from their parents. Meet the “nontraditional” college students of today.

Under the Communist Party’s ideological reeducation of China’s population, humiliation by foreign powers forms an emotional underpinning of the country’s national identity.

A growing number of high-profile men brought down by the #MeToo movement are now attempting to make a comeback, stirring debate on second chances for those who have lost their jobs.

Inspired by the challenges to the current presidential administration, law professor Kim Wehle has written a guide to the founding document — and its susceptibility to interpretation.

It’s not just “Medicare-for-all” or the Green New Deal that will spark differences among candidates. Trade marks a big divide wedged by the Trump agenda. And what would each tackle first as president?

A joint bid by Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo aces out the runner-up Stockholm. Italy hosted the Winter Games in 2006 in Turin.

A broad executive order issued Monday is supposed to help consumers get better estimates of health care costs. But whether it will be a game-changer depends on the details, health care analysts say.

Reports of children detained in crowded and unsanitary conditions long beyond the maximum legal limit have created a new controversy over the administration’s immigration policies.

Prompted by a request by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the department’s acting inspector general said he will look into what led to a postponement of the abolitionist’s appearance on the note.

At least eight Americans vacationing on the island have died since summer 2018. Vittorio Caruso of Glen Cove, N.Y., is reported to have died there this month.

A researcher made the discovery after ordering monarchs from a breeder. To help them, experts recommend planting milkweed.

Senate Republicans in Oregon have refused to come to the Capitol, denying the legislature the quorum needed to vote on a cap-and-trade bill. The state police has been sent to retrieve them.

“Micro-influencers” work with big companies to sell products on social media. Consumer groups are increasingly concerned that many posts on Instagram and platforms aren’t clearly marked as ads.

Iran shot down a U.S. drone. The U.S. launched a cyberattack and put new sanctions on Iran. Here is a look at the deepening crisis from Iran’s standpoint.

Solar is booming in Georgia, and it’s not because of state mandates supporting renewable energy or concerns about climate change. Instead, powerful market forces are driving the growth.

President Trump is issuing an executive order intended to force hospitals to disclose prices. A lot of work remains to turn this order into a regulation, and the industry is resisting the move.

Also, the family members of suspected fighters “should be repatriated, unless they are to be prosecuted for crimes” according to international standards, Michelle Bachelet said.

“I felt like everything that had mattered to me was gone,” Amber Scorah says of her decision to leave the Jehovah’s Witness community she grew up in. Her new memoir is Leaving the Witness.

Trump said that “hard-hitting” sanctions will cut off the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his office from certain financial assets.

The six-part BBC series airing on HBO follows one British family over the course of 15 years of upheaval, beginning in 2019. The unsettling show imagines the dismal future that liberals fear.

Researchers identified a strain of bacteria that flourishes in the guts of athletes after exercise. When transferred to mice, it gave a big boost in endurance. Could runners’ probiotics be on the way?

This quirky concoction, which traces its decades-old roots to Fall River, Mass., took off when Chinese restaurants adapted their menus to appeal to European textile workers. And people still love it.

The blacked-out material involves the drugs used in an Alabama execution. The release of the material was ordered after a motion filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and NPR.

An FBI agent calls it “an incredibly heartbreaking situation.” Three of the deceased were children — one toddler and two infants — and the other was a 20-year-old woman.

An unprecedented five-year study aimed to find out whether the treatments to stop the spread of HIV in the West would work in sub-Saharan Africa.

The decision paves the way for a clothing line, FUCT, to get its trademark. But the justices were split on how far is too far and which words they would find to be the most vulgar and profane.

To acquire the venerable Caesars name and properties, Eldorado will part with $7.2 billion in cash and around 77 million stock shares.

The United States opens its round of 16 in the Women’s World Cup with a game against Spain. It’s only the second time the two teams have ever met.

“I agree with President Trump on his decision not to take military action against Iran” Carter said. The former president said peace was a choice.

Researchers say teaching seals to copy melodies might help inform speech therapy for humans.

Two attacks have left at least four officials dead, authorities say. They accuse a brigadier general who was given amnesty and released from prison.