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Citing the recent debt ceiling deal, the CDC is trimming its funding to child vaccination programs that focus on communities vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

Four librarians in Prattville, Ala., have lost their jobs over book challenges. Now one of them wants his job back.

Barbara Byrd-Bennett is expected to appear in court on Tuesday. She is accused of taking $2.3 million in kickbacks for steering no-bid contracts worth $23 million to a former employer.

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The banned words list applies to all work done at the largest federal funder of clean energy technology.

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

The panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is holding two top Trump aides in contempt, and is seeking cooperation from Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Journalist Oliver Bullough runs kleptocracy tours in London, in which he points out mansions bought by corrupt foreign leaders and oligarchs. Moneyland describes their secretive transnational world.

Kristen Sotakoun uses her TikTok account to sleuth out information about willing participants.

For students getting busted with a fake ID, it's a college rite of passage that quickly evolved into thousands of dollars in legal fees.

When Ting-Yi Oei, an assistant principal at Freedom High School, in South Riding, Va., tried to investigate a sexting incident at his school, he never imagined that ultimately, he would be arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. The charges were tossed out by a judge earlier this month. Ting-Yi Oei talks about his case, and how it raises a number of issues, including questions of how the law is being used to go after sexting offenses.

After a three-year legal fight over sharply higher irrigation rates, residents of Gran Paradiso agreed to a settlement with their developer-controlled government that restores the possibility of water service — but only after major concessions critics describe as punitive.

Despite the rains and heavy storms driving through the area today, it's not enough to keep the underground aquifer filled.That's what the board of the…

A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that workers and their families are spending more of their incomes on health care.“Trends in Employer Health Care…

A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that workers and their families are spending more of their incomes on health care.“Trends in Employer Health Care…

Hillsborough County's hospitals will get swamped by mid-May if people don't practice social distancing, a University of South Florida researcher said…

The Florida Health Care Association wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services warning that most facilities could not meet the “arbitrary and unfunded mandates."

Getting verified on Facebook and Instagram will now cost at least $12 a month, as the social media giant seems to be taking a cue from Twitter.

For the first time since the 1980s, the number of Americans living with the virus that causes AIDS rose above one million. Almost half are African American, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

David Gans' Diary of the Recording Sessions

Oranges imported to Florida --- primarily from Brazil and Mexico --- are projected to surpass what is grown in the hurricane-damaged Sunshine State this...

What appeared to be a lone hacker announced the breach after apparently tricking an Uber employee into providing credentials. It is not known how much data the hacker stole.

Evan Mandery's A Wild Justice is an account of the legal battles that led to the U.S. Supreme Court striking down capital punishment, then reversing course four years later. He says that today, prisoners who are sentenced to death have a 10 percent chance of actually being executed.

South Korea's fourth largest city, Daegu, accounts for nearly three quarters of coronavirus cases there. An explosion of patients has overwhelmed hospitals, forcing authorities to shift tactics.

The complaint comes as the U.S. and the prominent social media company are embroiled in yet another legal battle that will determine if — or how — TikTok will continue to operate in the country.