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More than seven years after a crime that prompted street protests and reforms of sexual assault laws, four men who were convicted of raping and murdering a woman on a bus were put to death.

Warships from the U.S. and Russia narrowly avoided a collision in the Philippine sea. The countries are blaming each other.

Canadian scientists have shown that brain scans of people listening to songs found that an area in the left hemisphere decoded words while one in the right hemisphere decoded the melody.

A new technique, dubbed 'prime editing,' appears to make it even easier to make very precise changes in DNA. It's designed to overcome the limits of the CRISPR gene editing tool.

Scientists have come to realize that flu vaccines are less effective for people who are overweight or obese. Now researchers are trying to figure out why and hope to develop better vaccines.

Transgender and non-dominant gender people have had a difficult time finding community and support in Bloomington-Normal, according to Brittany Clinard of…

The UAE turns 50 next year, and on Tuesday a craft will be launched to orbit Mars to celebrate. Building a Mars probe also provided a focus for expanding the country's technological capabilities.

The FBI has arrested a British socialite on multiple charges related to the serial sexual abuse of girls and young women by late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Reta Mays was charged with killing seven patients by injecting them with insulin. She worked as a nursing assistant on the night shift at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Clarksburg.

A local road commissioner is defending his use of the N-word — by repeatedly using the slur, and insisting that it does not imply he is a racist. State and local officials are urging his resignation.