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The U.S. jail population has a 55% weekly turnover rate, raising the risk of infections passing between communities, according to the study.

Simone Biles, arguably the greatest gymnast in history, says she feels like the "the weight of the world" is on her shoulders.

Sundiata Acoli, a former member of the Black Panther Party, was convicted in the 1973 death of a New Jersey state trooper. His supporters say the 84-year-old has been a model prisoner.

Judge Robert Drain signaled he will approve the landmark bankruptcy for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. But he called for new limits to legal protections for members of the Sackler family.

"I knew I had wanted to do something with light because I felt like it's just been such a dark year and a half that I wanted to bring light to whatever it was I was doing," Laura Weiss told NPR.

The president plans to use the trip, which comes on his 100th day in office, to rally support for his sweeping proposals around children, families and infrastructure.

The practice of housing children who are in psychiatric crisis in local ERs — often for days, while they await appropriate in-patient treatment — has become even more prevalent during the pandemic.

President Biden gives his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. He may find some skepticism for his pitch to work together on COVID-19 and climate after some recent decisions.

It's unclear whether that means any reduction in the 2,500 U.S. troops now operating inside Iraq. Those troops already are focused mainly on what Biden called the new mission — training and advising Iraqi forces.

The Texas law bans all abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy. That is well before many women even know they are pregnant, and is at odds with the Supreme Court's precedents