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Two education groups are coming together to inform former students, teachers and staff who were at schools around the World Trade Center on or around 9/11 about the health risks associated with exposure

In an age when most consumers have great cameras in their pockets already, the photo industry hopes to bring you back to your local camera store by showing you the pictures your smartphone is missing.

Gerber says its newest spokesbaby is a spunky 1-year-old with “the look of wonder in her eyes,” born to a Hmong immigrant family in North Carolina. The company announced Tuesday that the winner of its ninth annual photo search is 1-year-old Kairi Yang, a little girl from Hickory who sometimes makes a cute “growling” sound when she gets excited. Her...

Several countries including Canada and Australia are in talks with the U.N. refugee agency to accept a Saudi asylum seeker who fled alleged abuse from her family, Thai police said Friday. Thailand’s immigration police chief, Surachate Hakparn, told reporters the U.N. was accelerating the case, though he gave no indication of when the process would be complete. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun...

A six-member Tennessee Board of Parole is divided on whether to release a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was a 16-year-old prostitute. Two members of the board voted Wednesday to release Cyntoia Brown, two denied her request for clemency, and two said she should serve 25 years of her sentence. A seventh board member...

A Brooklyn pizzeria is trying to stem the tide of the dangerous “Tide pod challenge” by offering a cheesy, tongue-in-cheek alternative.

U2’s lead singer Bono asked Argentina’s president on Monday about an activist who went missing after police cleared protesters from a highway more than two months ago. Bono said he spoke to President Mauricio Macri about Santiago Maldonado during a meeting in Buenos Aires and that he was “glad” that Macri is taking the case “seriously.” The Irish singer and...

A photographer is desperately trying to locate a backpack filled with wedding photos that was lost on the subway over the weekend, and he’s enlisting New Yorkers’ help through a social media campaign.

A North Texas wedding photographer has been awarded a $1.08 million defamation verdict against a married couple whom the jury found posted false statements in a social media campaign after being unhappy about a surprise fee.

A social media campaign to derail HBO’s planned modern-day Southern slavery drama quickly caught fire, prompting the cable channel to ask detractors to withhold judgment until they see “Confederate.” The campaign, with “OscarsSoWhite” activist April Reign among its organizers, asked people to tweet to HBO with the hashtag “NoConfederate” during Sunday’s broadcast of the channel’s “Game of Thrones.” “Game of...

The 11-year-old New Jersey girl whose body was found on a building roof hours after she vanished from her home died of a stab wound to the neck, the medical examiner said Monday.

Authorities have arrested a neighbor in the killing of a New Jersey girl whose body was found near her home Thursday morning, hours after she was reported missing by her mother, the Monmouth County prosecutor says.

A missing 11-year-old New Jersey girl has been found dead, and prosecutors are asking for the public’s help investigating her killing.

On International Woman’s Day, the CARE Organization set up a photo booth on 33rd Street and 7th Avenue to spread awareness of world poverty affecting women and children.

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill is among those lending his support to a terminally ill fan who wants to see “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” before he dies.

A Pennsylvania woman who was kidnapped as a child has renewed her effort to find her abductor over 30 years later.