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Skeptics say if you hand cash to the impoverished, they'll mismanage it. But it turns out, many poor people are great at saving — thanks to this ingenious system.

Facebook, Twitter and Google are telling members of Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday they've discovered even more use of their platforms by influence-mongers in 2016.

Rising temperatures factored into making the storm a watery giant, but other factors helped turn it into a catastrophe.

Volunteers with three environmental groups Tuesday picked up more than 1,100 pounds of trash left on San Diego beaches over the three-day holiday weekend.

The CBC's investigative consumer show Marketplace ordered the DNA analysis. The sandwich chain unilaterally denies the accusation, with a spokesman calling the claims "absolutely false."

The indefinite storage of radioactive nuclear waste 100 feet from the beach will not be part of California’s environmental impact report on the decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

From tiny, dissolving needles to high-powered liquid streams and nasal sprays, scientists are developing alternatives to typical vaccinations.

Stone carvings dating back 1,000 years suggest gruesome rituals tied to beliefs about fertility and long life.

Whether it's toddlers mistaking pills for candy or teenagers taking opioids on purpose, the huge rise in access to opioid painkillers has led to more children being poisoned and hospitalized.

The portrait of Jesus Christ, Salvator Mundi, was recently confirmed to be a da Vinci that had been thought to be destroyed. It's not clear where the painting was, exactly, for more than a century.