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An outbreak of methanol poisoning is blamed for more than 100 deaths in northern India. Here, a man is admitted to Saharanpur Civil Hospital after getting sick from toxic locally made alcohol in Uttar Pradesh.

Bootleg Liquor Kills 100 In India's Worst Outbreak In Years

The deaths from the homemade booze, known to many Indians as "hooch" or country liquor, have sparked protests, accusations and finger-pointing.

Vanderbilt University professor John Geer sits for a video-taped deposition in 2014, defending his expert witness report which backed up the tobacco industry position that smokers knew of the health risks of smoking as early as the mid-1950s. Academics often provide testimony for the industry.

Some Academics Quietly Take Side Jobs Helping Tobacco Companies In Court

Faced with lawsuits from sick smokers, tobacco firms argue the health risks were "common knowledge" for decades, and they often pay professors to help make that point as expert witnesses.

Roy Miller fills cans with cooked collard greens.

In A New Deal-Era Cannery, Old Meets New

During the New Deal, the government set up hundreds of public canneries in small towns. Most have disappeared, but a surviving cannery in Farmville, Va., is getting a boost from local farmers.

Sandra King Young runs Medicaid in American Samoa, a U.S. territory that faces dramatic funding cuts to islanders' health care unless Congress acts. "This is the United States' shame in the islands," she says.

America's 'Shame': Medicaid Funding Slashed In U.S. Territories

Five U.S. territories say if Congress doesn't quickly allocate more funding for their Medicaid programs, they will be forced to make brutal triage decisions that will likely cost American lives.

Tera Hickerson, right, and Columbus Holt embrace as they look at a board with information for services at a makeshift encampment outside a Walmart store for people displaced by the Camp Fire, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, in Chico, Calif.

In Smoldering Wildfire Ruins, Life Goes On For A Hardy Few

Flames leveled the town of Paradise, which is about 140 miles north of San Francisco, and much of the surrounding area, killing at least 77 people and destroying more than 10,500 homes.

A June 2013 shows Afghan parliamentarian Shukria Barakzai during a graduation ceremony of Afghan Army soldiers in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Female Afghan Lawmaker Survives Suicide Bomb Attack

Shukria Barakzai, an ally of newly elected President Ashraf Ghani who has fought for women's rights, was only slightly wounded in the attack.

U.S. citizens use ropes to cross the Rio Grande from San Antonio del Bravo, Mexico, into Candelaria, Texas. U.S. citizens depend on the free health clinic in San Antonio del Bravo.

In Rural West Texas, Illegal Border Crossings Are Routine For U.S. Citizens

In some remote border towns in Texas along the Rio Grande, U.S. citizens cross back and forth for medical care in Mexico. It's a technically illegal reality that local Border Patrol acknowledges.

A duck covered in a thick coating of crude oil, picked up when it lighted on waters off Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif., after the oil spill in January 1969.

How California's Worst Oil Spill Turned Beaches Black And The Nation Green

In 1969, oil from an offshore well left beaches in Santa Barbara, Calif., coated with crude and littered with dead birds. The country's reaction helped create the modern environmental movement.

Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson speaks at a hustings event at Carlisle Racecourse on June 29, in Carlisle, England. The winner of the party's leadership vote, to be announced on July 23, will also take up the post of prime minister.

'He's A Flawed Character And They Do Not Care': The Rise Of U.K.'s Boris Johnson

The larger-than-life British politician is expected to replace Theresa May as prime minister.

President Trump returns to the White House Thursday after traveling to Florida earlier in the day. He did not take questions from gathered reporters.

Republicans Call For A Kavanaugh-Like Strategy In Whistleblower Fight

Republicans who support President Trump say the next three weeks are crucial to determine whether he can keep Republicans united behind him or if emerging cracks break open even wider.

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