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Activists say more than 300,000 people have been detained over the course of Syria's civil war. A Syrian lawyer is trying to get the plight of detainees on the agenda at peace talks.

In the first look at his spending plan, the president is proposing boosts for the military and law enforcement — at the expense of other domestic spending. Congress will need to write the final plan.

Gay and lesbian troops have been able to serve openly in the U.S. military since 2011; transgender service members were allowed to do the same in 2016.

A lawyer for Marilou Danley said the airline ticket purchased for her by 64-year-old Stephen Paddock to the Philippines was so she could visit her family.

The number of young people with obesity has risen tenfold since 1975, according to a study from the World Health Organization. At the same time, that rise has been far from uniform across the world.

Inspired by the death of Eric Garner, the jazz singer asks an essential question in the spacious track, featuring trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: "What is needed for the change to come?"

A 20-square-mile blaze burned the historic Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park last week. In California's Sierra National Forest, an ancient grove of sequoias was scorched, but the trees survived.

A court of appeals in Porto justified a suspended sentence for a man who beat his ex with a nail-studded bat. The judges noted that the Bible says an adulterous woman should be put to death.

As the tied World Series is about to go into its third game, city police chiefs Charlie Beck of Los Angeles and Art Acevedo of Houston discuss the wager they have over the outcome of the series.

Pitcher plants have evolved independently on three different continents. But new research shows they use many of the same tools to catch and eat their prey.