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The current protests in Hong Kong have their roots in the agreement to hand over the territory from Britain to China in 1997.

Stock indexes tumbled so fast Monday that marketwide trading was halted temporarily for the first time since October 1997. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,013 points, or nearly 8%.

Kun Shan Chun, a naturalized U.S. citizen with top secret security clearance, had worked at the FBI since 1997. Chun pleaded guilty on Monday to acting as an agent of China.

Before James Mercer became famous in The Shins, he sang in a like-minded band called Flake Music. Its newly remixed, remastered and reissued 1997 debut contains many ideas he would later revisit.

A handful of AIDS cases were first recognized in the U.S. at the beginning of the 1980s. By 1990, there was a pandemic. In 1997, more than 3 million people became newly infected with HIV. A multimedia chart lets you track the cases by country over time.

Allegations against Larry Nassar began shortly after he joined Michigan State University's faculty in 1997. The former physician has now been convicted of sexual assault and child pornography. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to reporter Matt Mencarini of the Lansing State Journal about what the university knew and when.

A new study shows Ohio as a national leader in diverting juveniles to lower-cost community programs instead of prison. The national study by the Office...

Kelly Gissendaner was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for her role in the 1997 murder of her husband. Richard Glossip got a delay just hours before he was scheduled for lethal injection.

Fair Wayne Bryant had committed four felonies over the two decades leading up to his 1997 theft of hedge clippers. His parole follows a failed bid for the state Supreme Court to review his sentence.

Nebraska's governor had tried to veto a bill repealing the death penalty but the one-house legislature overrode the veto. Nebraska has executed only three prisoners since the 1950s, the last in 1997.