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In March, the Myanmar military installed a new government that says it's sincere about reforming its repressive rule. It's loosened media restrictions and suspended work on a controversial dam. But skeptics fear that the changes are merely a way to placate the people and preserve the status quo.

When Marine Cpl. Derek Wyatt left for Afghanistan, his wife, Kait, was pregnant with their first child. Three months later, Derek was dead. A day after his death, Kait was induced, so she could give birth and attend his funeral.

Emerging from the shadow of the Washington Monument, civil rights groups marched to the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on Saturday. The crowd rallied on the eve of the new memorial's dedication, calling for jobs and economic justice.

Iraq's sole cardiac-specialty hospital has survived wars and sanctions, but now only 15 doctors remain and they're in constant peril. And patients are waiting six months or more to undergo life-saving procedures.

The state will pick up four new U.S. House seats next year, thanks to a soaring Latino population. But civil rights groups and the U.S. Justice Department are signaling they may have some concerns about the redistricting process. A court case could force the state to draw new boundaries.

Our series on urban farming continues with an exploration of the legal problems that can crop up when backyards and vacant lots are turned into farmland. San Diego has struggled with questions about raising chickens, keeping bees and whose land is it anyway?

A Thomson Reuters analysis of what the privately insured spend on health care shows that it's wrong to presume that a region with high Medicare spending also has a cost problem from private insurance.

Forty years ago, the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed that people tend to conform — even when that means otherwise good people doing terrible things. Now Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who created that study, has a new project: proving that regular people can be taught to be heroes.

Federico Fellini's Amarcord gets a theatrical re-release (Janus Films)

The country's nuclear safety agency raised the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident to a Level 5 out of 7, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident. Emergency workers struggled to cool overheated fuel rods at the plant, while Japanese officials admitted the quake and tsunami had overwhelmed the government and slowed its response to the nuclear problems.