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Black women around the world spend hours at a time getting synthetic braids but are wondering if the convenience and fashion benefits are outweighed by potential health hazards

Chili’s is opening a new restaurant just north of Scranton to honor the legacy of "The Office."

Fires fueled by wind and trees downed by Hurricane Helene, which struck in September, creating ‘ongoing crisis’

A woman accusing French actor Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault has told a landmark trial in Paris that he groped her buttocks and her breasts several times in three separate incidents on a film set

More than 50 children were orphaned as a result of the relocated elephants, according to local communities who are taking legal action

A year after the catastrophic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland leaders are honoring the six construction workers killed that night

Australia plans to spend a larger share of its foreign aid on its near neighbors in Asia and the Pacific islands after the United States announced major cuts to development and humanitarian aid abroad

Ethiopia's Tigray region was once considered a model in the country's fight against HIV

South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins

Los Angeles officials have moved to take control of hundreds of millions of dollars in homelessness spending after two scathing audits found the government agency currently responsible for that money has spent it recklessly and without transparency

Police in Las Cruces, New Mexico, played 911 emergency calls and video depicting chilling scenes of people running in panic as gunfire crackled in a park where three people were killed and 15 others were wounded during an unauthorized car show