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The United States is one of just a handful of nations where maternal mortality actually rose over the last decade

Michigan teacher and Afghanistan veteran Adam Neuman thought he had escaped the clutches of the local union after he withdrew his membership before the new school year, but he was shocked to find that they still had thei...

The Coast Guard says it has retrieved a blood sample from a Dallas health care worker who is aboard a cruise ship and being monitored for signs of Ebola.

CANADENSIS, Pa. -- A rifle-toting man with a mud-covered face who was spotted in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains is believed to be the suspect who has spent more than five weeks...

Gunmen kill 8 abducted poultry workers in insurgency-hit part of southwest Pakistan

Islamic State militants have released sickening images of the public crucifixion and murder of a teenage boy. The barbaric punishment took place over three days in the central square of the extremists' de facto capital R...

The Ebola virus may be becoming even more contagious as the West Africa outbreak continues, experts fear. Doctors in the U.S. and U.K. have warned that the virus appears to be becoming more contagious and more they are f...

Healthcare workers at the Dallas hospital where Ebola patient Thomas Duncan was treated for the deadly virus were asked to asked to self-monitor for symptoms and let someone one know if they felt sick, according to a pub...

As Western nations called for an end to violence in Libya, Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani said his forces are ready to take back control of the capital Tripoli and Benghazi, which are in the hands of Islamist militants...

Remembered as a man whose willingness to help others might have led to his death, family and friends of Thomas Eric Duncan gathered Saturday at a North Carolina Baptist church to bid farewell to the Liberian national bel...

Pope Francis is allowing the endangered Sistine Chapel to be rented out for a corporate event, with the proceeds to benefit the needy -- while at the same time cracking down on visitors to the world's most famous church.

Take no chances. Leave no stone unturned. Fueled by Ebola fears, these common axioms are driving policy and action -- at times to hefty measures.

HAMILTON Bermuda

The brains of gamblers appear to be different from normal, healthy brains, suggests new research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress in Berlin. Pathological gambling is a difficult condi...

A murder at a New Mexico zoo has taken the life of a Tasmanian devil, an endangered species threatened with extinction.

Fluffy sheets, oodles of pillows -- if we could sleep in hotel beds all the time, we totally would. So we did a little digging, and it turns out there are indeed tricks -- even a few subconscious ones -- that will morph ...

(Reuters) - China has sent coastguard vessels to disputed waters in the East China Sea after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered Beijing by sending a ritual offering to a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead from Jap...

WASHINGTON

Four people were injured in daytime shootings Saturday, police said.

There's a lot of information out there on the Ebola crisis. And now, the issue's gone political with increasingly vocal talk on Capitol Hill and in midterm campaigns calling for a travel ban to keep the disease from spre...

Remains have been found in the search for Hannah Graham, a University of Virginia student who went missing on Sept. 13, Virginia police said.

Senior Republicans on Capitol Hill Friday criticized Ron Klain, President Obama's choice to be "Ebola czar," as a figurehead with no health background.