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Manal Elfakhani looks back fondly on childhood memories from the month of Ramadan . She would break her fast at the mosque with family and snack on sweet semolina flour cookies that she's since learned to bake herself.

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — Measures in several state legislatures this year have called for new approaches to weaken the power of judges. One would abandon a centuries-old precedent that courts can decide whether laws are constitutional.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democratic Gov.

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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas , state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable — respiratory disease since 2015.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors said Wednesday his prognosis is still guarded.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans' health services, lawmakers and veterans service organizations s

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has given New York until next month to comply with its order to halt Manhattan's new congestion pricing system , but state officials on Wednesday vowed to continue the tolling program, which is

Even for a film titled “My Dead Friend Zoe,” the opening scenes of Kyle Hausmann-Stoke’s movie have a startling rhythm. First, two female American soldiers are riding in a Humvee in Afghanistan 2016 blasting Rihanna’s “Umbrella.

The Mennonite population being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches worldwide with varied beliefs and leadership structures — and with sometimes strained or distant relations with heal