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Byline: Theodora Yu and Louise Delmotte HONG KONG - Anyone who has experienced a Hong Kong summer has a story about the oppressive heat and humidity. This year, a heat [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan Poor communities, urban areas and those that are home to few White residents are more likely to have potholed, cracked and rutted roads, according to a new [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable KABUL, Afghanistan - Nine months ago, Karzai Balochkhel was a 10th-grade student, learning math, physics and even a bit of art history. Today, he is an itinerant [...]

Byline: Abha Bhattarai and Alyssa Fowers It's become a familiar routine: Her daughter's day care is closed, so Hannah Watland is home without pay. In the meantime, her expenses pile [...]

Byline: Paul Stekler Fifty years ago this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of the best known, yet mostly unheard speeches in American history, his 'Mountaintop' speech. [...]

Byline: Annie Gowen Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, is in India this week to promote his family's real estate empire and more than $1 billion worth of luxury [...]

Byline: Karen Weese Sirrea Monroe never expected her electricity to be shut off -- she was only $70 behind, and she planned to pay it off after her next paycheck. [...]

Byline: Katie Zezima MILTON, Vt. - It's only the beginning of January, and Todd Alexander has already blown through much of the kerosene used to heat his blue trailer here, [...]

Byline: Jonathan M. Katz When the skies opened over Houston, some of the worst flooding rose in Greenspoint. The low-income neighborhood off Interstate 45 - south of George Bush Intercontinental [...]

Byline: Patrick Marion Bradley WASHINGTON - Patricia Brown couldn't prove her identity. On a Saturday morning in May last year, she rushed into the basement of Washington, D.C.'s Foundry United [...]

Byline: Radley Balko Proponents of civil asset forfeiture often claim that it's an important tool for targeting major drug dealers. We have to deprive them of ill-gotten gains, the thinking [...]

Byline: Kevin Sieff MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - The old man's house had become a camp for the displaced. In the back yard, groups of women boiled water for rice. Small children [...]

Byline: Joe Freeman NAVOTAS, Philippines -- Eric Clapton's 'Tears in Heaven' played over a loudspeaker as pallbearers lifted the casket of Ronnel Jaraba out of the hearse and carried it [...]

Byline: Emily Badger THIS STORY IS EMBARGOED FOR 12:01 a.m. EST April 11. SAN FRANCISCO -- This city is full of parks that invite exercise, and bike lanes that make [...]

Byline: Brian Fung WASHINGTON - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday proposed a dramatic expansion of the agency's efforts to ensure low-income Americans have reliable, high-speed Internet, through [...]

Byline: Emily Badger WASHINGTON - The sharing economy often feels like a place full of well-off millennials, digital natives who have smartphones, credit cards and reliable Internet connections. You need [...]

Byline: Tina Griego The last time Danieldevel Davis got out of prison it was 2012 and he was 38. 'I ain't going back into no man's prison again,' he vowed. [...]