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It's September, and many college students are arriving on campus for the first time. This exciting new chapter can have a darker side: College students are considered a high-risk group for drugging.

How do you get a cancer patient to a center that provides treatment when the roads are not safe? That's one of the challenges facing Haiti's health-care providers. How are they doing?

Experts have warned that the South African police are losing the battle against crime and that has led those citizens who can afford it, to turn to a booming private security industry.

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy ordered Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to hold off on any additional actions until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a similar Colorado case challenging Trump's eligibility to run in the presidential primaries.

A new study suggests that learning to play a musical instrument helps improve the brain's ability to process language. That means music lessons could give kids from low-income communities a big boost.

Youth joblessness remains remarkably high across the country, threatening long-term trouble for young people's career trajectories, earning potential and the overall health of the economy.

The jump is 12% more than the year before and came as rents and inflation skyrocketed. The increase was driven by families and those who lost housing for the first time.

More intense storms, rising sea levels, toxic algae blooms, and other environmental crises are making it harder for tribes to practice their culture and to pass it on.

The new benefits take a cue from a pandemic success story — when an expanded U.S. child tax credit briefly cut child poverty in half. Some states include immigrants and index credits to inflation.

Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who sacked virtually every market in the hard-hit city of Concepcion, as terrifying aftershocks turned more buildings into rubble and forced thousands to set up tents in parks and grassy highway medians.