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Tens of thousands of the customized candies were handed out at this week's U.N. General Assembly, printed with reminders about fighting poverty, climate change and global diseases.

What's an often overlooked killer in the world of global health? Why is heart disease both rising and falling? How did the Model T solve a health problem?

The storm is bringing high winds, snow, rain and dangerous road conditions. Meteorologists and local officials are warning people across the West and Midwest to cancel travel plans.

Federal water managers have announced the first shortage in the Colorado River system, which supplies water and hydropower to 40 million people and countless farms in western states.

The opposition of Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, likely dooms Raskin's chances to be confirmed.

The other night my wife and I watched “On the Beach,” a 1959 film by Stanley Kramer. It was one of the first and - to my mind, still the best - nuclear holocaust movies ever made.

The 69-unit affordable housing complex in New Haven will be the second in the country to use the sustainable mass timber construction method.

The Environmental Protection Agency said the new rules will not result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists are calling for more stringent measures.

Novelist Colson Whitehead envisions zombies in Manhattan, while Donald Ray Pollock returns to gritty southern Ohio. In nonfiction, Ben Mezrich recounts the heist of moon rocks from NASA, and Mark Hertsgaard looks ahead to the next 50 years of climate change.

Excessive heat warnings are in effect across the West, where temperatures will hit the triple digits — a signal that climate change and lengthening summers pose serious problems for the region.