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President Trump speaks during a school choice event at the White House.

Health Care Bill Hits Special Ed; Trump Touts D.C. Vouchers Despite Poor Test Scores

Our weekly education roundup: A big investigation into sexual assault in K-12 schools; achievement gaps persist in high school graduation rates.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reviewing all sex assault cases from last year that were dismissed as "unfounded," or baseless, as well as some older cases. A newspaper investigation found that 1 in 5 sexual assault complaints in Canada over a five-year period were designated as "unfounded."

Canadian Police Revisiting More Than 10,000 Dismissed Sexual Assault Cases

An investigation by The Globe and Mail found that a fifth of reported rapes and assaults were dismissed as "unfounded," meaning baseless. Now police across the country are reviewing old cases.

Residents carry a coffin containing the remains of a pregnant woman killed by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti. People across southwest Haiti are salvaging what they can from wreckage the Category 4 storm caused.

U.S. Rushes Aid To Haiti, Where Hurricane Matthew Killed Hundreds

USAID is airlifting supplies that could help up to 100,000 people, including 40,000 blankets, 20,000 hygiene kits, and nearly 18,700 kitchen sets.

U.S. Rushes Aid To Haiti, Where Hurricane Matthew Killed Hundreds

USAID is airlifting supplies that could help up to 100,000 people, including 40,000 blankets, 20,000 hygiene kits, and nearly 18,700 kitchen sets.

Bottles of Fanta are displayed in a food truck's cooler in 2014 in San Francisco. The city is one of several in California that have a soda tax on the ballot this November.

Trick Or Treat? Critics Blast Big Soda's Efforts To Fend Off Taxes

Several U.S. cities have sugary drink taxes on the ballot. As efforts to reduce soda consumption gain traction around the world, critics say the industry is using the tobacco playbook to fight back.

Visitors stand on an overlook at Torrey Pines State Reserve on Jan. 25, 2016.

Study: Gene Testing Didn't Encourage Healthier Habits

If you knew your genetic risk of developing a disease, would you adopt healthier habits to keep that disease at bay? If you're anything like the participants of a recently published study, you probably wouldn't.

FBI Releases Mobile App For Finding Bank Robbers

The new app enlists public's assistance in identifying bank robbers with wanted posters at your finger tips.

Pat Wilkins didn't plan to live in Ghana. But the former New Yorker is now so much a part of the society that, as one Ghanaian puts it, "We don't even see her as an American. She is family to us."

New Yorker Redesigns Her Life To Help Kids In Ghana

Pat Wilkins had a "high maintenance life" with expensive vacations and a BMW. Then she decided to diverge from that path.

The mummified remains, show in a 2014 exhibition in Museo Egizio Turin.

Researchers Confident Mysterious Pair Of Mummified Knees Belonged To Queen Nefertari

Italian archaeologists found a pair of mummified knees in Nefertari's tomb in 1904. For the first time, tests indicate that the knees belonged to the great queen herself.

Scientists with the international scientific collaboration known as the "Walk Again Project" use noninvasive brain-machine interfaces in their efforts to reawaken damaged fibers in the spinal cord.

Robot-Like Machines Helped People With Spinal Injuries Regain Function

Eight people with serious spinal injuries who practiced hours of interaction with wearable machines for months regained lost feeling and some ability to move.

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