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A photo demonstrates safety features in a Volvo XC40. Many new cars have optional features that can help prevent accidents. But those same features can also make repairs more expensive, boosting car insurance premiums.

Why Safer Cars Don't Lead To Cheaper Car Insurance ... Yet

Many new cars have optional features that can help prevent accidents. But those same features also make repairs more expensive. The result? Premiums can go up for cars that are less likely to crash.

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, pauses during a news conference in Hong Kong on Saturday. The Hong Kong government will suspend consideration of a China-backed extradition bill that triggered massive protests.

Hong Kong Leader Suspends Controversial Extradition Bill

The bill, to allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China, triggered massive protests in the territory. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she was concerned about further unrest.

Fecal transplantation is an experimental procedure to treat intestinal conditions, including recurrent, antibiotic-resistant Clostridium difficile infection. But if the donor stool is not properly screened, it can spread other illnesses.

Be Careful Of Fecal Transplants, Warns FDA, After Patient Death

The FDA has strengthened oversight of experimental fecal transplants after a patient died of an infection. The donor's stool contained disease-causing pathogens, but was not tested before use.

Steubenville High School football team in a huddle. At a pre-season party in small-town Steubenville, Ohio, the now-infamous sexual assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high school football team took place. "Roll Red Roll" is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep seated and social media-fueled "boys will be boys" culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.

POV: Roll Red Roll

Airs Monday, June 17, 2019 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department, on Thursday. He Told reporters Iran is believed to be responsible for attacks on two tankers near Persian Gulf.

Pompeo Blames Iran For Gulf Of Oman Tanker Attack, Citing Unspecified Intelligence

Pompeo said Iran is using "terror, bloodshed and extortion" in an attempt to pressure the U.S. to ease what he described as a "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.

Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic is a popular vacation spot among American tourists. Federal investigators are now probing why a spate of people have died suddenly over the past year while visiting the island country.

FBI Probing Why Some U.S. Tourists Have Died Mysteriously In The Dominican Republic

There are similarities in the rash of deaths. Most are described as happening suddenly, and several after an alcoholic drink.

Ken Cuccinelli, seen here in 2016, was named on Monday as acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is charged with adjudicating requests for citizenship, green cards and visas.

Trump Administration Taps Hardliner Cuccinelli For Top Immigration Job

The administration named high-profile immigration hawk Ken Cuccinelli to lead the agency in charge of citizenship and visas, raising concerns among immigrant rights advocates.

The control tower at the Camp VI detention facility in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, as seen through razor wire, in April.

Justice Breyer Says It's 'Past Time' To Confront Guantanamo's 'Difficult Questions'

Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Gitmo detainee but Breyer warns of court consensus unraveling 18 years after 9/11 okayed detentions.

Two ticks in their nymphal stage: At left, the longhorned tick, native to Asia and a recent arrival in the U.S. At right, the lone star tick, found in the eastern United States and in Mexico.

Asia's Longhorned Tick Takes Its First Documented Bite In The U.S.

The parasite carries potentially lethal pathogens in Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. Now it's in North America. We ask tick specialists to weigh in.

One More Scoop Of Vanilla: A New Proposal Looks To Loosen Radio Ownership Rules

A proposed change could see more radio stations ending up in the hands of fewer executives, which would have a homogenizing effect on radio dials around the U.S. The thing is, that's already happened.

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