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In 2024, the World Health Organization certified the elimination of a disease in nine countries. We focus on how Pakistan got rid of trachoma, which can cause blindness.

In Missouri, police are searching for whomever shot and wounded two officers outside the Ferguson Police Department Thursday.

Claudia Sheinbaum took the oath of office Tuesday, becoming modern Mexico's first ever female head of state. Sheinbaum assumes power with strong popular support and majority power in the Congress.

Sports commentator Mike Pesca wonders whether Major League Baseball will modernize to attract a young audience, and how it will keep them for life.

The Supreme Court handed President Trump a temporary win, permitting the administration to prematurely end a humanitarian program that had granted two-year legal status to half a million people.

In a dramatic press briefing, a US ambassador sheds tears as he tells the government of Zambia that theft of US donated medicines is forcing him to suspend health aid to the country.

A controversial affordable housing project in San Luis Obispo survived the most recent effort to halt the project's current design plan. In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the San Luis Obispo City Council denied an appeal submitted by neighbors that could have blocked the project before the council casts its final vote.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a landmark proposal that would give 2 million workers paid leave upon the birth or adoption of a child, in what worker advocates call a hard-won victory.

After spending four years in an Ethiopian prison on trumped-up terrorism charges, Bekele Gerba visits Washington, D.C., to share concerns about his country and criticisms of Obama.