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Shonda Rhimes and Reese Witherspoon are among the 300 actresses and insiders behind Time’s Up, an initiative for legal protections for workers nationwide.

Suddenly trendy again, astrology checks several boxes for viral-happy content: It provides an easy framework for personalized material, speaks to young women and accesses ’90s nostalgia.

As midnight struck from East to West, revelers welcomed 2018 with fireworks, festivities, food, drinks and dancing. (And hundreds of weddings.)

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Two demonstrators were reported killed in recent days as protests quickly grew into a nationwide outpouring of anger.

“I have nightmares that the military is chasing me,” says a 12-year-old who fled Myanmar. For hundreds of thousands like her, the horror isn’t over.

On New Year’s Eve, Mar-a-Lago hosted its annual gala, an opulent but customary occasion for a president who spent his winter vacation reveling in the comforts of familiarity.

He proposed talks with South Korea to discuss the North’s participation in the Winter Games, and boasted of having a “nuclear button” on his desk.

The sheriff of Douglas County in Colorado described the deputy who was killed, Zackari Parrish, as a “smiley kid” who was eager to serve.

Defying Washington, a NATO ally hosts North Korean laborers, showing how difficult it is to sever the nuclear pariah state from the global economy.

2017 was one of the darker years in modern American history. Here’s hoping for the beginnings of a turning point.

It’s time for the Supreme Court to end state-sanctioned killing for good.

The outpouring of support after New York’s deadliest fire in more than a quarter-century is “a sign that the victims are not alone,” a neighborhood priest said.

Making New Year resolutions as a hedge against apocalypse.

American health care is a universe of scientific genius and selfless compassion populated by the most diverse population in the country.

A fake report of a hostage situation led to the death of an innocent man at the hands of the police. Who bears responsibility?

State officials are considering legal challenges, looking at other sources of revenue and considering ways to, in effect, restore deductions that the overhaul scaled back.

Instead, a changing electorate that appears more forgiving of the steroid era may gradually push Bonds and Clemens closer to Cooperstown.

Churches had planned a peaceful march to protest President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to leave office, but security forces fired tear gas at churches and set up checkpoints in the capital.

In her New Year’s address, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany promised to work swiftly on a new coalition, and to help heal rifts in society.