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Toxic metal can be harmful to developing brains. New lead targets are part of a broad FDA imitative to reduce children's exposure to the lowest levels possible.

The rules would lower emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants that can harm brain development of young children and contribute to heart attacks and other health problems in adults.

The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which was announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize's judges.

The 26-year-old protester, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, was killed in January in an Atlanta-area forest as police cleared an encampment of activists who oppose the construction of Atlanta's "Cop City."

The explosion of the giant rocket was not seen as a negative by SpaceX officials since this was considered a developmental flight.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Peter Pace face tough questioning before a Senate committee as they try to sell the latest Pentagon budget.

Yolanda Denise King, the daughter and eldest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Santa Monica, Calif., according to a spokesman for the King Center. She was 51. Steve Klein said the King family did not immediately know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem.

Regularly consuming cranberry juice can help stave off urinary tract infections, a new study finds. UTIs account for 7,000,000 doctor's office visits and about 100,000 hospitalizations in the United States.

Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on a popular Australian tourist island in a ferocious attack that a rescuer said could have been fatal.

A long-awaited parliamentary election took place Monday in Pakistan. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party was expected to do well. Early unofficial results confirmed that expectation, with the opposition making a strong showing. President Musharraf vowed the election would be free and fair.