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For a brief period of time Gavin Grimm, the transgender male high school student at the center of a national debate on gender identity, was allowed to use the boys' bathroom at his school.

You might want to chase that next beer with a little exercise. Exercising the recommended amount "cancels out" the higher risk of cancer death brought about by drinking, a new study revealed. Similarly, physical activity lessened any greater risk of death resulting from any cause due to alcohol.

National Women's Soccer League franchise Washington Spirit altered its pre-game ceremony to thwart Seattle Reign midfielder Megan Rapinoe from showing her support for NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

The besieged Syrian town of Madaya has seen a "worrying increase" in children suicide attempts as the long war takes its toll, a rights group warned.

Zendaya has alleged a grocery clerk of racism after refusing to sell her $400 in gift cards.

Student Kristin Smart went missing on May 25, 1996, and was declared dead in 2002. Now authorities say they may have gotten a break in this very cold case and have begun excavating on Cal Poly's campus.

The camerawoman seen on video tripping fleeing migrants in Hungary was charged Wednesday with "breach of peace" by the public prosecutor's office in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged.

An American billionaire has taken the wheel at Formula 1.

Nearly 50 million children worldwide have been uprooted from their homes due to violence, poverty and other factors out of their control, according to a new report released by the U.N. children's agency.

Is China building more islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea?

A Russian river located by the Arctic town of Norilsk turned bright red Tuesday, looking more like an enormous blood vessel than a body of water.

At an NBC town hall, Donald Trump stood by a 2013 tweet that implied military sexual assault is a result of women serving in the military.

Apple's new iPhone 7 will ditch the ubiquitous headphone jack, senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller announced Wednesday at the company's keynote event in San Francisco.

Thanks to a generous land donation, Yosemite National Park will grow by an additional 400 acres of wetlands and meadow habitat on its western boundary. It is the largest planned expansion for the California park in nearly 70 years, said Tim Ahern of the group Trust for Public Land.

A funny thing happened at Apple's big event on Wednesday. It started off more like an ad for Nintendo than it did for Apple.

Everyone knows you have to watch out for sharks on Australian beaches -- but what about dinosaurs?

Four police officers in Oakland, California, have been fired for involvement in a department-wide sex scandal, Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a press conference Wednesday.

Apple announced its next-generation smartphone in a promoted tweet shared at the beginning of its annual press event on Wednesday. The device, which is available for pre-order on Friday Sept. 16, is water resistant.

The "ghost snake" is a new snake recently discovered in Madagascar. It's part of the snake group called cat-eyed snakes.

The US Coast Guard is searching for a woman who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship early Wednesday, according to a news release.