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More than a quarter of likely voters say the brazen slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was an "understandable" reaction to the high cost of health care.

The kids seen by Dolores Mejia around suburban Phoenix have been growing heavier in recent years. Their parents, too, she says.

The owner of Britain's Guardian newspaper confirmed Wednesday that it has sold the Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee.

Pakistani authorities on Wednesday postponed a polio vaccination campaign in the country's restive southern Balochistan province after health workers boycotted it to oppose a proposed privatization of hospitals.

For decades, they have scrounged for food on streets across the country - undesired, abandoned and overlooked.

Seven foreign tourists who were hospitalized in Fiji after drinking cocktails at a resort bar were not poisoned by alcohol or illicit drugs, officials said Wednesday following a toxicology report.

Pakistani veterinary surgeons found that a bacterial infection killed an elephant at a safari park in the city of Karachi earlier this month, a veterinarian with a global animal welfare organization said Wednesday.

An injured cave explorer in northern Italy was carried to safety Wednesday, 75 hours after she fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Bueno Fonteno cave, alpine rescuers said.

Nearly half of women who took abortion pills to end their pregnancies said the experience was more painful than they had been led to believe, according to a newly published survey.

Senate Republicans who met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week are not raising alarms about the Health secretary nominee's history of vaccine skepticism or plans to shake up the food industry, saying they appreciate his willingness to question ...