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The country has passed a law meant to be a comprehensive approach to reducing sex work. But some sex workers say it puts them at greater risk. Clients will be fined about $1,700 for the first offense.

Huge amounts of information about your health, your doctor and your hospital lurk in private and public databases. But putting that information to work to improve health care remains a challenge.

The new privacy guidelines are one-third their previous length. But experts say it doesn't change how much data the company will continue to gather from users.

The House speaker is the overwhelming favorite to win his Republican primary election Tuesday. But one of his foes produced a campaign ad that won't soon be forgotten.

Britain has extradited five terrorism suspects to the U.S., including radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports they appeared in federal courts Saturday in New York and Connecticut.

Storm water runoff from Hurricane Sandy has stopped oyster and other shellfish harvesting across coastal North Carolina.Nearly a week later, Eastern North…

Mississippi would have been the only Republican-led state in the South with a health insurance exchange not run by the federal government. Now Mississippi has another distinction: It's the only state to have its exchange plan turned down by the federal government.

State laws protecting dealers make it hard for anyone who wants to change the way new cars are sold.

Tax fossil fuels in proportion to the amount of carbon they release. That's it; that's the whole plan.

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