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More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process.

The Netflix series "Last Samurai Standing," launches on Thursday and is set in a Japan where the feudal samurai era is about to end.

The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is set to strike its last circulating penny as the president has canceled the 1-cent coin.

Looking for gifts that wow? Innovative options for your holiday gift list might include Props carry-on suitcases, which make travel more convenient by having built-in luggage racks.

Kai Trump has committed to the University of Miami to play golf for the Hurricanes. Miami announced her as part of its women's golf signing class on Wednesday, the first day of the NCAA Division I signing window.

Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.

The Food and Drug Administration has named a longtime regulator of cancer medications to lead the agency's drug center.

It's always interesting when time overtakes the dystopias of the past. In Stephen King's 1982 novel "The Running Man," the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state divided between haves and have-nots.

Baylor coach Nicki Collen has a new furry family member -- Sailor the cat. She was driving home from an assistant's birthday Saturday night when she heard meowing coming from her car.

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, died from blunt force injuries to the head that he suffered in a fall earlier this year.