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The Alphabet unit says it expects to allow passengers to ride in truly driverless cars in its tests within the next few months.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

Promising “a new day for Medicaid,” Seema Verma, President Trump’s top health care official, called on states to move Medicaid in a conservative direction.

You glitter the way she does only if there’s gold at the core.

The latest financial results for the messaging and media company Snap included higher costs and a net loss more than triple that of a year ago.

Precious Colón entered the shelter system after her mother found out she was pregnant. She plans to return to college in hopes of becoming a businesswoman and a lawyer.

An opulent hotel in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, is being used to house people detained in what Saudi Arabia’s government calls a crackdown on corruption.

The former adviser offered new details during eight hours of testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, which has released a transcript of his remarks.

China is gleaning know-how from foreign firms, willing or otherwise, to build the industries of the future, in an effort that worries companies and Washington.

Mr. Hallberg, the American Ballet Theater principal and paragon of classical style, has a new memoir about life, dancing and returning from an injury.

Drinking alcohol, even modest amounts, increases the risk of breast cancer and other cancers.

Tales of sailing the high seas, rescuing a whale and emulating Robinson Crusoe from Mordecai Gerstein, Peter Sis, the Fan brothers and more.

Every era gets the chronicler it deserves. Kevin Young, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, tracks the progression of bunk through the ages.

A pastor at a church near Sutherland Springs says violence should never happen in sacred community spaces.

By the time the British realized he wasn’t Canadian and the Americans discovered he was missing, he had already parachuted into occupied France.

In 1996, domestic abusers were legally barred from owning a gun, yet a large percentage of mass gunmen have domestic violence in their backgrounds.

In Felixstowe, England, visiting sailors venture off their ships … but not outside the port.

Families made by adoption depend on it.

The governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey are the latest test of President Trump’s effects on voters in what used to be reliably Republican areas.

Joaquín Ramírez and his girlfriend, who was hit by one of Devin P. Kelley’s bullets, cannot shake his awful words.