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Mississippi moved quickly toward a legal confrontation over the nation’s most restrictive abortion law Monday. Within six hours, the governor signed a bill banning most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, the state’s lone abortion clinic sued, and a federal…
Researchers looked at health records 40,876 adults — white Americans, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans — and sorted them as having either “optimal,” “suboptimal” or “poor” cardiovascular health, using a standardized classification system. The study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine.…
How has the Earth evolved, and what’s in store for the future? It’s a sticky question that has graduate student Loes van Dam covered in corn syrup by the end of a day in the lab. She thought using a…
A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle — a crash that could have far-reaching consequences for the new technology. The fatality Sunday night in Tempe…
In a televised address, Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski confirmed his resignation Wednesday hours after video footage surfaced that linked him to a vote-buying scandal, according to reports. Kuzynski’s resignation comes just one day before an impeachment vote was due Thursday,…
Protesters in northwestern Peru had set up a makeshift roadblock consisting of rocks and burning tires to put pressure on the government not to invest in a major local development project. Riot police advanced on a bridge in the Olmos district of the…
