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More people are getting cancer in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, and surviving, thanks to rapid advancement in care. Many will have ...

An NPR investigation finds thousands of veterans were pushed into high-cost mortgages by a program that was meant to help ...

Gascón became the first trans actress to win a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival with the Best Actress Award, which she ...

A person has tested positive in British Columbia, Canadian health officials said, though the results must be sent to another ...

It marks even more turmoil in an already rocky democratic transition process for Haiti, which hasn't held democratic ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

The TikTok page @lifeonfilm.27 is filled with imagery of college students partying, couples on vacation and pop stars playing to sold out crowds. But the account’s most recent video is something ...

The SS United States, a record-breaking American ocean liner from the 1950s, will take its final voyage from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico this week.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with actor Patrick Dempsey about his efforts to raise money for cancer treatment and prevention.

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Dozens have been arrested in the Netherlands after a soccer match between a Dutch and Israeli team sparked anti-Semitic and anti-Arab violence.