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Shared Sentence: Illinois Moves To Help Kids Of The Incarcerated

A pair of laws recently enacted in Illinois were designed to take into account how children are affected by their parents' incarceration and to find...

Young men carry luggage from Venezuela into Colombia under the Simón Bolívar International Bridge. Tensions are rising in this border area, where many Venezuelans are seeking refuge and are anxious for change back home.

'Time To Act': Venezuelans Who Fled To Colombia Are Eager To Oust Maduro

Tensions are building at Colombia's border with Venezuela, where former Venezuelan forces and migrants are taking refuge. Many are eager for a revolution back home.

Ginger Baker, performing with Cream in 1966.

Ginger Baker, Cream Drummer And Force Of Nature, Dies At 80

The 1960s rock icon, who was also an accomplished jazz musician and performed with Fela Kuti, died Sunday morning.

With the coronavirus spreading, farms try to keep workers like these in Greenfield, Calif. safe through physical distancing and other measures but advocates for laborers say protections are often not adequate.

Without Federal Protections, Farm Workers Risk Coronavirus Infection To Harvest Crops

Labor advocates say the lack of enforceable federal standards to ward off the coronavirus allows farmers to prioritize the harvest over worker safety.

Serena Williams motions a heart to fans after losing to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Friday in New York.

Serena Williams loses to Ajla Tomljanovic in U.S. Open farewell

The 23-time Grand Slam champion staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, but could not do more, and was eliminated from the U.S. Open in the third round.

In London to address a gene-editing summit last week, Victoria Gray took a break to visit Sir John Soane's Museum. In 2019, Gray became the first patient to be treated for sickle cell disease using CRISPR, an experimental gene-editing technique. She was invited to talk about her experiences at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing.

Sickle cell patient's success with gene editing raises hopes and questions

A Mississippi woman's life has been transformed by a treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. All her symptoms from a disease once thought incurable have disappeared.

The latest college campus freebies? Naloxone and fentanyl test strips

The teen fentanyl crisis is following students onto college campuses. Here's what students and staff are doing about it.

Vérane Frédiani, author of <em>Taste the World in Marseille</em>, on May 23.

A new French cookbook explores Marseille as a cultural melting pot

A new cookbook celebrates Marseille, France's second-largest city.

Blake Lively inspires more actresses to speak out against Hollywood toxicity

In the wake of Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against co-star Justin Baldoni, more actresses are speaking up about their own similar experiences on set.

The race is on to build EV battery-recycling plants in the U.S.

Federal spending is turbocharging a scramble to build more EV battery-recycling plants in the U.S. and make them more efficient and eco-friendly too.

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