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About a month ago, the Brazilian government said miners would get access to an expanse of rain forest larger than Denmark. After public resistance and a legal setback, it reversed course Monday.

We all love those great operatic death scenes, don't we? The ones where the bereft tenor plunges a knife into his heart (or the tenor's bass-baritone…

Summertime is a time for enjoying the water at a pool or lake, but many children cannot or should not take part in the fun because they don't know how to…

Brokers and consultants have told large employers they could save money by shifting workers with expensive health conditions into insurance marketplace exchanges. Now that has been deemed illegal.

Britain is being described as the first country to leave the European Union. That may be true on a technicality, but others left the pan-European body in the past.

The small desert town of Rachel, Nev., near the Air Force facility known as Area 51, is bracing for a gathering of UFO hunters. Matty Roberts talks about his viral Facebook page.

People in greater Cleveland are more likely to attend arts and cultural events than in other cities in Ohio and across the U.S, according to a recent National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) study. “In Cleveland, about 62 percent of adults in the course of a year attended some kind of performing arts event, dance, theater, music,” said Sunil Inyengar, director of research and analysis for the NEA.

An appellate court in Brooklyn ruled that local police officers in New York state can't detain immigrants solely to turn them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a judicial warrant.

Patients feel little personal responsibility for keeping health costs lower, a study found. They were also unlikely to accept a less expensive treatment option, even if it was nearly as effective as a more expensive choice.

Last October, a cyber attack made it hard for people to access Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and other popular sites. Here's what we learned from that massive "distributed denial of service," attack.