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In the late 1990s, pediatricians in Boston and several other major US cities began comparing notes about a disturbing trend in their low-income patients: More of them were struggling to gain weight—a condition known as “failure to thrive”—and lagging…

President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees have had some unusual hobbies and pet causes. Alabama District Court nominee Brett Talley is an amateur ghost-hunter and horror novelist. (The White House withdrew his nomination after it was revealed that he’d…

I was home in San Francisco earlier this year when my mom told me that our family had a connection to Peoples Temple. We had just finished brunch and were crossing Divisadero, one of the main thoroughfares of the Western Addition  neighborhood, also known…

Does the name Fethullah Gulen ring a bell? Maybe not. Gulen is a 77-year-old Turkish cleric who has been a resident of the United States for the past 20 years—and who has been a mortal enemy of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the past five years…

On Thursday, nine days after polls closed in California, the Associated Press made it official: Democrat Katie Porter unseated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in the 45th district. Walters, who led Porter in the vote-count until Wednesday, made false allegations…

Broward County, the epicenter of the drama surrounding Florida’s contentious elections, just missed the deadline for submitting its machine recount totals to the Florida secretary of state. Joe D’Alessandro, director for election planning and development,…

On Thursday, federal prosecutors announced that they will bring three federal hate crime charges against a white gunman who allegedly shot and killed two black people at a grocery store in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Gregory Bush, 51, faces one count each for…

As a top official at US Customs and Border Protection, Ronald Vitiello helped oversee the separation of more than 2,500 immigrant families in the Trump administration’s greatest self-inflicted humanitarian crisis. Five months later, the Senate looks set to…

As the week nears its close, here’s something to relax by. This is my last photo from our Yosemite trip earlier this year, but as I told you, it’s a good one: Half Dome and Point Ahwiyah taken in the warm, red glow of sunset. Beautiful, isn’t it?

The National Rifle Association is doing away with free coffee and water coolers for employees at its Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters—a cost-cutting move that has NRA insiders perturbed. “The whole building was freaking out,” said one former employee who…