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Allison Crimmins, who heads the National Climate Assessment, says the U.N.'s landmark report confirms the need for "significant, sustained action" to reduce emissions.

The former gymnast was instrumental in bringing serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar to justice. She says the gymnastics industry still has abusers and a system rife with problems.

Carnivorous plants are rare, but now botanists say they've found one that's long been overlooked. It lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, and in other parts of the Pacific Northwest.

Brittany Commisso has alleged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment for years, groping her on numerous occasions. She had earlier discussed her allegations anonymously.

Across the United States,108 wildfires are burning, mainly in the west. What they're called is important, just as it is with hurricanes and other disasters.

The U.S., which accuses President Alexander Lukashenko of corruption and repression, imposes new sanctions on his financial backers on the one-year anniversary of an election widely considered rigged.

Researchers using DNA analysis say a body buried in feminine clothing and with a sword was neither strictly male or female. The grave shows the high status of some nonbinary people in their community.

Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant. Here are their tips.

Nearly 8% of Muslims in a recent survey reported a suicide attempt in their lifetime compared with 6% of Catholics, 5% of Protestants and 3.6% of Jewish respondents.

Alabama is one of the states throwing away COVID-19 doses as they expire. But other nations desperately need vaccines — and public health experts would like to see vaccines used instead of wasted.