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Many people forced into labor or the sex trade seek medical help at some point, and health care workers are being trained to identify them and to offer assistance.

W. Joseph Astarita was part of a team that was trying to capture leaders of the militia that launched the 41-day occupation in Oregon. Prosecutors say he fired his weapon but said he hadn't.

The chance of catching Lyme disease from an individual tick ranges from zero to roughly 50 percent. Three factors matter: the tick species, where it came from and how long the tick was feeding.

Just 49 Syrian refugees have been admitted in fiscal year 2018, compared with more than 12,000 in 2016. "The refugee program is in danger," says the head of a resettlement organization in Connecticut.

In China, parents are angry after reports that hundreds of thousands of children throughout the country have likely been injected with faulty vaccines.

Jaequan Faulkner's fledgling hot dog stand in Minneapolis was almost shut down when someone called the city's health department. But, instead, the health department worked to get his stand up to code, and now he's back in business.

Billy McFarland, his companies and two of his associates have admitted defrauding $27.4 million from more than 100 investors.

Journalist Michael Scott Moore went to East Africa to write about piracy. Then he got kidnapped and imprisoned for 977 days. The Desert and the Sea chronicles his incredible ordeal.

Top Senate Democrats are refusing to meet with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until they reach an agreement with the White House to review documents from his long legal career.

A dam that is part of the unfinished Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower project — being built with the help of a South Korea company — collapsed on Monday, sending a wall of water downstream.