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Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month

Experts calculate that curbing and coping with global warming is going to cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it

There are few images more indelible in the history of American dance: Judith Jamison, regal and passionate in white leotard and long ruffled skirt, punching the air in “Cry” — Alvin Ailey’s piercing solo about Black womanhood

After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder

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

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban

The Singles’ Day shopping festival is looking less shiny this year as e-commerce firms look abroad for growth

The Arizona Supreme Court has declined an emergency request to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with mail-in ballots

California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form

Authorities say more than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina have been recovered unharmed