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September 17, 2017

US coastal growth continues despite lessons of past storms

Rising sea levels and fierce storms have failed to stop relentless population growth along U.S. coasts in recent years, a new ...

September 15, 2017

Sewage spills add to misery in hurricane-battered Florida

As if loss of air conditioning and refrigeration weren't bad enough, widespread power outages in hurricane-battered Florida ...

September 13, 2017

American household income finally topped 1999 peak last year

In a stark reminder of the damage done by the Great Recession and of the modest recovery that followed, the median American ...

September 12, 2017

Study shows hormone pills don't shorten older women's lives

Taking hormone pills for several years after menopause didn't shorten older women's lifespans, according to the longest ...

September 12, 2017

How millennials got a 6-figure start on retirement saving

If you've read the latest headlines, you know millennials get a mixed financial rap. Some reports say they're throwing their ...

September 08, 2017

Is Hurricane Irma the 'Big One' Florida has dreaded?

They call it the Big One — a mythic, massive hurricane that would obliterate the densely populated southeast coast. And it ...

September 07, 2017

Kansas prison more crowded before unrest damaged building

The inmate population at a low-security state prison in northwestern Kansas grew steadily in the three months before a ...

September 06, 2017

Australia marks 26 years since recession with growth data

Australia's economy has grown for 26 years without a recession, an extraordinary achievement in a volatile world still aching ...

September 02, 2017

Black smoke, flames shoot up from Texas chemical plant

Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up Friday after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up at a ...

September 01, 2017

Flu outbreak kills 7 residents in Australian aged care home

An influenza outbreak has killed seven residents of a care home for the elderly in Australia and sickened 116 other residents ...

September 01, 2017

Explosions rock flood-crippled chemical plant near Houston

At least 2 tons of highly unstable chemicals used in such products as plastics and paint exploded and burned at a ...

August 29, 2017

Child marriage increasing in civil war-torn South Sudan

Humanitarian workers in South Sudan say the country's ongoing civil war has increased the rate of child marriage to alarming ...

August 24, 2017

Critics: Utah horse meeting is secretive 'slaughter summit'

Swollen populations of federally-protected wild horses roaming 10 Western states are starved and damaging rangelands, Utah ...

August 23, 2017

AP-NORC poll: Hispanics see barriers to nursing care

Close to one-half of older Hispanics have faced language or cultural barriers interacting with health care providers, and few ...

August 21, 2017

AP-NORC poll: Hispanics lack confidence in nursing homes

Hispanics in the United States have a longer life expectancy, but a poll finds few older Latinos are confident that nursing ...

August 18, 2017

Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 percent more cases

Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week ...

August 16, 2017

Back to bomb shelters? North Korea threats revive nuke fears

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the era of nuclear nightmares — of the atomic arms race, of backyard bomb shelters, ...

August 04, 2017

Correction: Poll-Young Americans-Trump story

In a story Aug. 3 about a survey of millennials' opinions of President Donald Trump, The Associated Press misspelled the last ...

August 02, 2017

Workplace accident death rate higher for older workers

Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace fatalities decreases, ...