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Bert and Ernie — yes, Sesame Street's Muppets — have been thrust yet again into the gay marriage debate.

The city is the latest to honor Native Americans instead of Christopher Columbus. But not everyone is happy about the change.

Organizers hope potential residents are more comfortable coming to a facility that attends to their specific cultural needs.

In Connecticut, formerly incarcerated people are building bookshelves and filling them with books for donation to prisons. They say reading helped them get through their own sentences.

Monterey Park residents held a vigil Tuesday night to remember victims of a weekend shooting, while residents of Half Moon Bay struggled with their own horrendous loss from gun violence.

The governor of the South Kivu province said the death toll was provisional and the number of fatalities could rise further. He said there were 278 people on board, according to local authorities.

There are more than 7,000 diseases that are considered “rare” – meaning that fewer than 200,000 people have them. But 10 percent of Americans have one...

Anand Giridharadas spent two years researching a man who committed a string of hate crimes after 9/11. Along the way, he uncovered a striking story of mercy from an unlikely source: the man's victim.

The state will start tracking ventilators through a new database as part of the ongoing effort to build up capacity for the projected peak of...

The political party that runs Pakistan's parliament announces Saturday the candidate it wants to become the country's new prime minister: Yousaf Raza Gilani. He is likely to assume the post on Monday.