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For years, anti-poverty advocates and researchers have complained that the U.S. government doesn't do enough to make sure its aid programs actually work.

She also picked up a gold medal in the javelin competition.

There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials.

Tao Li, 45, of San Diego, conspired to steal confidential information from the pharmaceutical giant about anti-cancer drugs under development.

The last case from Havana was confirmed in June.

Xiyue Wang's wife created the petition that led the U.N. group to consider his case. She said she has struggled over two years to maintain a normal life for her son.

"The ocean really needs all the help it can get."

After weeks of relative silence, Pope Francis has agreed to meet a delegation of U.S. bishops and cardinals to discuss the Vatican response to the clergy abuse crisis.

The Sahara desert is expanding, and has been for at least a century. It's a phenomenon that seems impossible to stop.

The new policy closes a significant pay gap between men and women at the league's surf competitions.

"Just say no to abuse — of power, conscience or any type," Francis said.

The ACLU and Guatemalan immigrant advocates are fanning out across the country to find dozens of parents who were deported from the U.S. without their children.

"Let them knock themselves out," the former New York mayor told NPR.

Before the United States had a refugee resettlement policy, the Glosser family fled grinding poverty and ...

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified about the work they're doing.