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Det. Anthony Mannuzza (left) and police officer Robert Martin of the New York Police Department simulate a street stop during a training session.

Studies Show 'Proactive Policing' Works, But Social Cost Less Clear

A sweeping new report surveys what's known about the effectiveness of policing strategies. It's crucial information for cities such as Chicago and Baltimore, as they cope with surging violence.

Activists participate in the Take Back The Workplace March and #MeToo Survivors March & Rally on November 12, 2017 in Hollywood, California. The movement has sparked a national debate about sexual harassment, especially in the workplace. A new survey offers the first set of nationwide data on prevalence, showing that the problem is pervasive and women are most often the victims.

A New Survey Finds 81 Percent Of Women Have Experienced Sexual Harassment

A nationwide survey found that most women have experienced some form of sexual harassment, many since their teenage years. The results illustrate why the #MeToo movement was so successful.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Moscow Tuesday.

Pakistan Says It Dodged U.S. Efforts To Put It On A Terror-Finance List

"Our efforts paid" off, says Pakistan's foreign minister, claiming a global task force failed to reach consensus on punishing the country.

A block of Tomme de Savoie cheese ages with a sweater of Mucor lanceolatus fungal mold. Mucor itself doesn't have a strong taste, but more flavorful bacteria can travel far and wide along its hyphae â the microscopic, branched tendrils that fungi use to bring in nutrients.

The Cheese Does Not Stand Alone: How Fungi And Bacteria Team Up For A Tastier Rind

Cheese rinds may seem simple, even discardable, but the microbial world they contain is complex. Among their inhabitants: bacterial swimmers that hop on highways of fungal tendrils to get around.

Kikue Takagi, left, narrowly survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing as a schoolgirl. She's now 83. Her second cousin is U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, a Democrat from southern California. His grandparents and parents were all placed in U.S. internment camps in World War II. In this photo from last year, they are at a restaurant in Hiroshima, where he visited her.

A Survivor's Tale: How Hiroshima Shaped A Japanese-American Family

Kikue Takagi narrowly survived the atomic bomb that killed her classmates. Soon after she moved to California, where she worked for many years at Disneyland. Now in her 80s, she's back in Hiroshima.

A crowd waits to cross the border into Colombia over the Simón Bolívar bridge in San Antonio del Táchira, Venezuela, in July 2016.

Venezuela's Deepening Crisis Triggers Mass Migration Into Colombia

A downward economic spiral, food shortages and a host of other problems have driven thousands of Venezuelans to flee to nearby countries.

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad in 2007. Kamprad died Saturday at at 91.

IKEA Founder, Ingvar Kamprad, Dies At 91

The Swedish entrepreneur, whose company brought affordable, Scandinavian design to living rooms around the world, died Saturday in his home in Smaland, Sweden.

Comedian Shelley Berman has died at the age of 92. Here, he arrives at a reception for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

Comic Shelley Berman Dies At 92

Along with Bob Newhart and Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman helped change the tone and tenor of American humor.

Hector René "Tito" Matos (left), leads a celebratory plena musical bar hopping jam session along the trendy Calle Loiza neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico's 'Singing Newspapers' Tell A Story Of Resilience

The call-and-response singing and drumming tradition known as Plena brings "a little joy" to the hurricane-damaged Calle Loiza neighborhood in San Juan.

By mid-January, there had been nearly 5,000 reported cases of diphtheria in the camps and 33 deaths.

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

Diphtheria is not seen in the West because almost everyone is vaccinated against it. But it's been infecting thousands of the refugees in Bangladesh.

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