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As Russia swears in a new president, observers question whether the leader, Vladimir Putin's successor, will have real power to chart his own course for the country. He takes over a nation with a booming oil economy, and many serious problems.

In college, biologist Jimmy Breeden learned to identify bird songs — and in them, he heard his life's calling. His passion has taken him from the Smoky Mountains to a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where he works to preserve a rare duck species.

Milwaukee public health officials had an idea for reducing deaths by drug overdoses. They bought vending machines and then stocked them with life-saving supplies — such as Narcan.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the court's third woman and first Hispanic. Sotomayor won support from all Democrats who voted, plus some Republicans.

The Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 new whole-body scanners in airports. Opponents of the machines say they violate passengers' privacy, but supporters say they actually aren't all that invasive — and they're our best weapon against future attacks.

President Obama said Monday the government was doing everything in its power to keep the traveling public safe. Obama was making his first live public statement since a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day.

Hotter oceans are threatening coral around the world this summer. A new project is seeking to preserve coral by deep-freezing them, in the hope that one day they can help restore reefs.

Florida's state universities will start accepting an alternative to the SAT exam that's known for its Christian and conservative backing.

The report by Physicians for Human Rights says that even since the ceasefire in Ethiopia last November, sexual violence against women and girls, as an act of war, has continued.

Jemisin is the only author to win three Hugo Awards in a row — for her Broken Earth trilogy, which begins with an apocalypse. She says she likes to explore what apocalypses mean for different people.