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The latest NPR-IBM Watson Health poll found that 29% of people said they were often angry when checking the news. Another 42% said the news sometimes made them angry.

While former Vice President Joe Biden has a commanding lead in early polling for the Democratic nomination, black women interviewed by NPR all say they are still weighing their options.

The state becomes the 11th in the country to legalize recreational pot. The Illinois law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, also expunges the criminal records of some 800,000 past offenders.

One of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, Rocco Morabito, and three other inmates made a brazen escape from a prison in Montevideo Sunday, climbing through a hole in the roof.

Prosecutors say that Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was driving a pickup truck and veered over the center line of a rural road in New Hampshire, striking and killing a group of motorcyclists.

Attorneys representing sex abuse victims have argued for years that their clients weren’t informed of the once-secret deal beforehand or given the opportunity to testify about it in court.

San Francisco supervisors say they need to protect kids and teens from becoming addicted to nicotine. The dominant vaping company, Juul, is headquartered in the city and hopes to overturn the ban.

An early member of the Trump campaign and Melania Trump’s spokeswoman since 2017, Grisham has been a staunch defender of the first lady. She will also take over as White House communications director.

On the fifth day the Republican state senators have skipped the session in protest over a cap-and-trade bill, the Senate’s Democratic president said the bill would expire in the Senate chamber.

The school says not terminating the teacher would have resulted in “our forfeiting our Catholic identity.” Last week, a nearby Jesuit school decided to split with the archdiocese instead.

“In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration,” President Trump tweeted. The U.S. slapped additional sanctions on Iran on Monday after Trump opted against a military strike last week.

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.