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Ask any LGBTQ patient about awkward doctor visits and chances are they’ll have a story to tell.
Google is attempting to make sure people know exactly what they're signing up for when they use its online services — though that will still mean reading a lengthy document.
The New Orleans Saints headed to court in a bid to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese amid its sexual abuse crisis.
In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The 9-year-old aspiring astronaut wanted to check out a calculus book, but a librarian threatened to call the police if he didn't leave. McNair was black.
A U.S. judge in Arizona sided Wednesday with migrants who have long-complained about inhumane and unsanitary conditions in some U.S. Border Patrol facilities in the state.
A Utah man whose body was found in a freezer exonerated his wife by leaving a typed, notarized note saying she bore no responsibility in his death.
A 43-year-old German man shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb in attacks that appeared to have been motivated by far-right beliefs.
Tossing aside tradition, California's governor devoted his biggest platform to a single issue: solving a homelessness crisis that has overwhelmed the nation's most populous state in an era of unprecedented prosperity.
The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites in 2019 than any administration since the program's first years in the 1980s, figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicated.
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"When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge," Carter said.
A short police statement gave no information on the victims. It said that authorities are searching for the perpetrators, and it is not immediately clear what the reason for the shootings may have been.
Several former patients have alleged that a late University of Michigan physician sexually abused them during exams, with one accuser saying Dr. Robert E. Anderson's actions over several decades made him a "sexual predator."
A Florida woman who got clemency from President Donald Trump while serving prison time for a $205 million Medicare fraud scam said her case was brought to Trump’s attention by a woman who herself got clemency.
Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security Council that “the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe” in northwest Idlib province, which is the last major rebel stronghold, has “overwhelmed” efforts to provide aid.
Responding to the the lawyer’s claims, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “This is absolutely and completely false.”
Right-leaning websites celebrated the findings of a February 2020 report by the International Energy Agency.
A routine review of content labeled satire.
The suspect was tackled by library patrons after the stabbing.
After a self-identified atheist requested the plates in 2016, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet denied the request on the basis it violated anti-discrimination guidelines.
Rumors that spread in February 2020 about the death of Kobe Bryant's widow were junk news.
Political humor can sometimes be so arch that viewers fail to discern it as such.
The arrest of a Harvard professor fueled conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus outbreak in 2020.
The segment prompted numerous rebuttals condemning the "maliciousness of the attack" on the legacy of the children's TV host.
“The babies kept coming and coming and coming and coming ..."
The arrest of a Harvard professor fueled conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus outbreak in 2020.
This photograph is not all you need to know before you vote in 2020.
President Donald Trump supposedly sent former President Barack Obama a bill for all the vacations the latter took before leaving office.
Trump supposedly proclaimed that Republicans are the "dumbest group of voters" in a 1998 'People' magazine interview.
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign tried to distance him from a 1972 essay in which he wrote that a woman "fantasizes being raped by three men simultaneously."
