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The groundbreaking novel Speak told the story of Melinda, a teen who stopped speaking after a sexual assault. In her poetry memoir, Shout, Anderson opens up about being raped when she was 13.

Most House Republicans oppose renewal of the 1994 law in part because it would restrict gun rights for individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic abuse and stalking charges.

The Zika virus, the subject of a global health scare over the past couple of years, might actually help fight an aggressive form of brain cancer, researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine announced Tuesday.

It is the second-most common reason women are in jail in Senegal.

The arrests in the fatal attack on a Palestinian woman last year has highlighted a rift between Israel's security establishment and hawks in the settler community.

That's what a UNICEF official calls the conflict in Yemen. And escalating violence in a key port city is jeopardizing aid to hundreds of thousands of starving children.

Verlin "Buzz" Fortin was on the USS Indianapolis when it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, and he has a harrowing tale to tell of sharks, hallucinations and rescue.

Climate change is complicating the lives of subsistence rice farmers in Madagascar. For years, the wet and dry seasons arrived predictably. No more. To survive, farmers are looking to diversify.

In a BBC interview after his discharge from Berlin's Charité hospital, Verzilov said his "poisoning" was "so professionally" carried out that it had to be the work of Russian intelligence.

Bellingcat, an open-source investigative website, says it has discovered the real identity of one of the Russian men charged in the U.K. with poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.