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Tourists dressed up as People's Liberation Army soldiers pose in Liangjiahe village, where a teenage Xi Jinping spent seven years doing hard labor. Today the village is a popular red tourism site. The sign displays a quote from Xi: "Liangjiahe is where my roots are, and my soul. It is my second home."

Chinese Tourists Throng 'Red Tourism' Sites To Mark Communist Party Centennial

The officially designated Communist Party historical sites venerate Mao Zedong and, increasingly, the country's current leader, Xi Jinping. Tourists sometimes do manual labor and dress up as soldiers.

Lisa St. John with Obediah in San Diego, Calif., in this undated photo.

Del Mar woman hopes to give Liberian children a Christmas to remember

One Del Mar woman is trying to spread the Christmas cheer this year thousands of miles away.

James Hatch was a dog handler in the military. At Yale, he's often accompanied in class by his service dog, Mina.

A former Navy SEAL went to college at 52. His insight led to a new class

Heading to college is hard for anyone. But have you tried being at least 30 years older than most of your classmates? James Hatch did.

Rapper Tupac Shakur, pictured here in Los Angeles in August 1996, was fatally injured in a drive-by shooting, a case that's never been solved.

Las Vegas police took laptops, documents from home searched in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing

A home searched by Las Vegas police investigating the drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1996 is tied to the uncle of a long-dead suspect in the killing.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection found the skull of a young dolphin in someone's luggage in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport last week, CBP said.

A dolphin skull was found in someone's luggage in Detroit

The luggage was unaccompanied on an international flight re-entering the U.S. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now in possession of the skull.

The last class session with students from Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro, Ukraine, and science and engineering students from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

Unlikely connection: college students in Ukraine and the U.S. form a bond

Learning American pop culture while attending college during a war: Students in Dnipro, Ukraine, and Golden, Colo., form an unlikely connection.

Sydney McLaughlin of Team United States competes in the Women's 400m Hurdles Final on day twelve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 04, 2021 in Tokyo.

Olympic Runners Are Fast. On Tokyo's Fast Track, They're Shattering World Records

It's no accident that the track feels fast to runners. The Italian company that designed the track says its goal is to take "human speeds to levels never reached before."

A San Diego police officer's patch in this file photo from March 14, 2022.

Police in California aren't immune from certain misconduct lawsuits, high court rules

The decision came after a Riverside County woman sued the county and its sheriff's department for leaving her husband's body lying naked for eight hours after he was fatally shot.

Some urinary tract infections may be caused by food-borne <em>E. coli</em> bacteria, research finds.

Unraveling a hidden cause of UTIs — plus how to prevent them

New research shows that one of the most common infections in women may be linked to our food supply. Here's what to know to protect yourself.

Boxes containing doses of the abortion pill mifepristone are laid out at the Hope Clinic in Illinois. The Comstock Act of 1873, which outlawed the distribution of "obscene" materials such as contraception, is being cited as a basis for blocking the mailing of mifepristone.

Why anti-abortion groups are citing the ideas of a 19th-century 'vice reformer'

Anthony Comstock pushed Congress to crack down on what he saw as harmful vices, such as pornography and contraception. An 1873 law named for him has appeared in recent court battles over abortion.

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