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China's incoming president Xi Jinping wants to be seen as a man of the people. So for this year's opening of parliament he has banned extravagant banquets, gifts and flowers in delegates' rooms.

Florida's junior U-S senator, Marco Rubio, took what many called a step toward a presidential run in 2016. On Saturday Rubio went to Iowa, to speak to the…

You've heard warnings to turn off your cellphone at the movies. If you disobey in London, you may be attacked by ninjas. The Prince Charles Cinema is shushing patrons using people in skin-tight body suits.

Our panelists predict what President Obama will do to make people care about climate change.

More 20,000 people were rescued in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this weekend due to severe flooding.

Florida has had 200 cases of the Zika virus in 2017, with most stemming from people who contracted the disease elsewhere and brought it into the state,...

Imtiaz Shams grew up as a devout Muslim, but has since left Islam, and co-founded an organization that supports people who are leaving their religion.

Florida is leading the nation in the number of people killed by lightning strikes.

Authors Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer discuss their new book, Rwanda Means the Universe. They describe years of peaceful coexistence between the Bahutu and Batutsi in Rwanda, and events leading up to the massacre of the Tutsi people in 1994.

A new cellphone service called Dodgeball helps people meet up with their friends on the fly, via mobile phone. The free service has more in common with social software that originally started on the Internet than traditional phone-company offerings. Ben Gilbert reports.