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January 23, 2020

Top Arizona court: Divorced woman can't use frozen embryos

A woman can't use her frozen embryos to have a baby over opposition from her ex-husband under terms of the contract they ...

January 22, 2020

Unusual study details woes among veterans of foster care

Americans who have spent time in foster care are far more likely than other adults to lack a college degree, health insurance ...

January 22, 2020

Court takes another look at Native American adoption law

A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian ...

January 20, 2020

10 years after Vatican reform, Legion in new abuse crisis

The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the ...

January 18, 2020

St. Louis donations wipe away $13 million in medical debt

Thousands of St. Louis-area families were freed from a major financial burden thanks to a charitable effort that is ...

January 16, 2020

Teen who fled with mom to avoid cancer surgery has operation

An Oregon teenager who was taken out of state by her mother to avoid surgery for a rare type of liver cancer has had the ...

January 15, 2020

Tennessee governor says he will sign anti-LGBT adoption bill

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday that he'll sign into law a measure that would assure continued taxpayer funding of ...

January 12, 2020

France's #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry

He was a middle-aged French author becoming known, even celebrated, for writing about sex with children. She was a fragile ...

January 08, 2020

Husband in missing mom case ordered held on $6 million bail

A Connecticut man was ordered detained Wednesday on $6 million bail on charges that he killed his estranged wife — a crime ...

January 08, 2020

Official quits amid charges he paid women to give up babies

An elected official in metro Phoenix resigned Tuesday, months after being charged with running a human smuggling operation ...

January 07, 2020

Husband of missing Connecticut mom charged with her murder

The story of Jennifer Dulos, a missing mother of five, gripped Connecticut and many around the country for months as police ...

January 06, 2020

Attackers beat protesting students at Indian university

Masked assailants beat students and teachers with sticks on the campus of a prestigious university in India’s capital, ...

January 05, 2020

Church offers little outreach to minority victims of priests

The Samples were a black Chicago family, with six children and few resources. The priest helped them with tuition, clothes, ...

January 02, 2020

Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo ...

December 31, 2019

US agency formalizes border medical plan after migrants die

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday formalized a medical plan formed in the wake of a massive surge of migrant ...

December 31, 2019

N Carolina diocese publishes list of credibly accused clergy

A Catholic diocese in North Carolina on Monday published a list of 14 clergy who it says have been credibly accused of child ...

December 28, 2019

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church's sex abuse lists

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, ...

December 27, 2019

Iowa hate crimes suspect got breaks after earlier arrests

She was charged with stabbing one boyfriend in the chest in 2017 and, months later, with threatening another with a butcher’s ...

December 24, 2019

Kidnapped baby whose mother was killed reunites with father

A baby girl who was kidnapped and discovered a week later with the body of her slain mother more than 100 miles(160 ...