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Minutes after the turn of the new year, NASA's New Horizons probe will fly by a minor planet in the most distant exploration of a world ever attempted.

If you had to evacuate your home at a moment's notice, what would you take with you? When teenaged Sarah Frey was sent to the U.S. to escape unrest in the Dominican Republic, she took a ring with her.

Tina Fey co-created the quirky comedy The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtfor Netflix ;John Ridley made the emotionally raw drama American Crime for ABC. TV critic David Bianculli says they're both good.

A Maine medical school and nearby hospice center are trying out a VR program aimed at fostering more empathy for dying patients among health workers-in-training. Not everyone is sold on the idea.

In Kerala, a part of India known as "land of coconuts," male coconut pickers are turning to other jobs. Women are among the new trainees.

President Trump is back in the U.S. after a brief trip to Iraq to visit U.S. troops. The stop comes as Trump faces intense scrutiny for his decision to pull back on troop deployments elsewhere.

A growing body of research shows keeping a log of what you are thankful for can lower stress, help you sleep better, and may even reduce the risk of heart disease. But it's not for everyone.

A study found parachutes were no more effective than backpacks in preventing harm to people jumping from aircraft. The researchers' tongue-in-cheek experiment makes a deeper point about science.

It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.

More than half the states passed dozens of gun control measures in 2018, including what are known as "red flag" laws, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.