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Home Depot co-founder and then-CEO Bernie Marcus poses for a portrait at a store in 1998.

Bernie Marcus, Home Depot co-founder who pledged to give away his billions, has died

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.

Republican supporters briefly chat outside the Staten Island Republican Party headquarters in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City on Tuesday.

In New York, immigration weighed heavily and divisively among immigrants themselves

For months, Donald Trump and his campaign have been promising mass deportations. In a city that has received some 200,000 new migrants in the last two years, that promise has resonated among some.

More than 1,000 people died in 2023's Cyclone Freddy and hundreds of thousands more were displaced in Malawi. Many low-income nations are bearing disproportionate impacts from more intense storms.

Richer countries are starting to pay poorer ones for climate change damages

With climate-related disasters getting more extreme, richer countries are piloting ways to compensate developing nations, since they bear the least responsibility for causing climate change.

A sold sign stands outside a home in Wyndmoor, Pa., on June 22, 2022. Two recent studies suggest that prospective homeowners will have to earn more than $100,000 annually to afford a typical home in much of the U.S.

You'll need more than $100,000 in income to afford a typical home, studies show

Two recent studies suggest that prospective homeowners will have to earn more than $100,000 annually to afford a typical home in much of the U.S.

About 40% of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors, according to a Lancet commission report.

As the U.S. ages, dementia is on the rise. Here are ways to reduce your risk

About 40% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by healthy lifestyle choices and preventive medicine. Here's a tool to gauge your brain care and track your progress.

A woman looks at artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art Comedian during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York on Nov. 11, 2024.

A duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at an art auction

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur.

Jeff and Donna Standridge (right and middle) and Keith Lowhorne (right) are all raising their grandchildren. More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family members — when their parents are unable to care for them.

A new way to support grandparents raising kids affected by the addiction epidemic

A pilot program in Alabama will distribute $280,000 from opioid settlement funds to support ‘grandfamilies’ formed to raise kids affected by the opioid epidemic.

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Traffic at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at San Ysidro, Dec. 19, 2016.

Mexico devastated by 'iron river' of guns from US

For decades, a flow of guns from the U.S. has contributed to deadly violence south of the border. Data that was previously undisclosed provide additional details on crisis.

Cinematographer Bianca Cline and director Joel Souza at the Rust premiere in Torun, Poland on Wednesday.

After a fatal on-set shooting, 'Rust' continued production. On Wednesday, it premiered

Three years ago, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed when a gun held by Alec Baldwin went off on set. Her husband settled a wrongful death suit to become a producer of the film, which premiered in Poland on Wednesday.

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