In Senegal's gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold ...

Policy aims to drive drug companies to lower prices domestically while other countries shoulder more of the cost.

A major new international study has found that young adults in low- and middle-income countries who are sex workers, gay men, ...

The elevation of Chicago-native Robert Francis Prevost appeared to come from a confluence of factors, analysts said.

President Donald Trump will be confronted with an Arab plan for postwar Gaza as he embarks on a high-stakes Middle East swing ...

The establishment of the tribunal gives Ukraine a path to prosecute the senior political and military leaders responsible for ...

The National Congress of American Indians and Native American Rights Fund headed to the United Nations headquarters to ...

Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he will announce a "major trade deal" on Thursday. More broadly, his tune and ...

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There is clear evidence of serious wrongdoing in the Tufts student’s case—and it’s all on the part of the government. ON MARCH 25, RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK, a Turkish national working on her Ph.D. at Tufts ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called ...

New global data shows what makes for a flourishing life. It isn’t what we think. The Global Flourishing Study has surprising ...