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New Mexico has made it illegal to stigmatize students who cannot pay for their lunches. State Sen. Michael Padilla, who introduced the bill, says he had to mop cafeteria floors as a foster child.

In the middle of an international debate about Syria, Bashar Assad, Russia and Iran, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer made an ill-conceived, ahistorical reference to Hitler. He later apologized.

Some of the planets could be home to liquid water, but it remains unclear whether life could exist on such strange worlds.

News of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Russia emerged on the same day FBI Director James Comey said his agency is investigating possible coordination between Moscow and the Trump campaign.

More than 650 children died in Syria last year, UNICEF says — and 255 of them were either in or near a school. Millions of other Syrian kids are relying on humanitarian aid.

The abolitionist Harriet Tubman has now been memorialized with a state park in Maryland's Eastern Shore. A visitor center commemorates her role in transporting dozens of slaves to freedom.

Conflict and drought have ravaged four countries across North Africa and the Middle East, leaving more than 20 million people in desperate need of food.

Chicago and Cleveland are both cities with real problems. But while their baseball teams played out the World Series, Indians fans and Cubs fans connected and commiserated with each other.

A new report from the Overseas Development Institute finds that impoverished children are working long hours in violation of the country's labor laws.

The 1970s soul singer — and father of actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. — was found unresponsive in his car Thursday.