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When Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine returned to Great American Ball Park Saturday, so did public address announcer Joe Zerhusen.Zerhusen had been…

Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare brain disease in 2010, and then learned she had inherited the same genetic mutation. She and her husband, Eric Minikel, went back to school to study the family of illnesses — prion diseases — in the hope of finding a cure for Sonia.

A Couple's Quest To Stop A Rare Disease Before It Takes One Of Them

Twenty years. That's how long two grad students, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel, think they have before a deadly disease envelops Sonia's brain. The Massachusetts couple is now racing to find a cure.

A Penn State student walks past Old Main on the Penn State main campus in State College, Pa., in 2015. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

After Penn State Hazing Death, Professor Argues Fraternities Must Go

Occidental College sociology professor Lisa Wade joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss the state of the nation's fraternities.

State Liquor Agents Being Trained To Identify Potential Human Trafficking Victims

Some of the officers that enforce liquor laws in Ohio are being trained to fight more than illegal serving or drinking.

Phoenix Mercury Star Diana Taurasi Breaks WNBA Scoring Record

Diana Taurasi became the WNBA's leading career scorer on Sunday night. The Phoenix Mercury guard now has 7,494 points, an achievement earned by playing her own fierce style of hoops.

Otto Warmbier's Public Funeral At Wyoming High School

Update June 20, noon: A public funeral service for Otto Warmbier is scheduled for Thursday June 22 at Wyoming High School at 9:00 a.m.Burial will be at…

The Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where the plaintiffs were detained for months following the September 11 attacks.

Supreme Court Rules Former Detainees Cannot Sue Bush Administration Officials

The six men, all of Arab or South Asian descent, were in the U.S. illegally when they were detained. They say they were held under harsh conditions after the September 11 attacks.

4 Foreign Inmates Escape Bali Prison Via Tunnel

Police spotted the tunnel Monday morning and believe the escapees remain nearby.

Growing coffee provides income for about 15 percent of Ethiopia's population and is the country's top export. Climate change is likely to shrink the land suitable for coffee, thereby also hurting the livelihoods of many people.

Ethiopia's Coffee Farmers Are 'On The Front Lines Of Climate Change'

A new study says that Ethiopia could lose more than 50 percent of its coffee growing regions to climate change. But, higher altitude areas could become more suitable for coffee in the coming decades.

People take part in a vigil at Finsbury Park in north London, where a vehicle struck pedestrians on Monday near a mosque.

Suspect Named In Van Attack On Worshippers Leaving London Mosque

British media say 47-year-old Darren Osborne of Cardiff, Wales, is in custody on alleged terrorism offenses.

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