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The young couple, shy and flush with excitement about her first pregnancy, sit down with Daniela Iacoboni, a prenatal genetic counselor at North Central Bronx Hospital. They are from Mexico...

A few weeks ago, Laura Bonner received an e-mail alert at her office computer: A friend she hadn't heard from in ages had sent her an electronic greeting from a...

Richard Graham, an original member of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who was moved to help found the National Organization for Women by what he saw as the commission's...

The messages in fortune cookies are typically vague, banal and optimistic. But some cookies are now serving up some surprisingly downbeat advice. Bernard Chow, marketing coordinator at Wonton Food in...

Rescue workers searched a rugged, remote part of the central Cascade Range on Monday for a private plane that disappeared Sunday with 10 people aboard. The nine passengers and a...

The lead detective on the hit CBS series "CSI: NY," Mac Taylor, is a pretty conventional television hero: Like his colleagues on the two other "CSI" franchises, he uses science...

Alexandra Boulat, an award-winning photographer known for a clear, descriptive style and a knack for making emotionally moving, often idiosyncratic images of people affected by war, died Friday in Paris....

The messages in fortune cookies are typically vague, banal and optimistic. But some cookies are now serving up some surprisingly downbeat advice. "Today is a disastrous day. If you can't...

In the wake of the biggest opium harvest in Afghanistan's history, American officials have renewed efforts to persuade the government here to begin spraying herbicide on opium poppies, and they...

Last Nov. 1, Noah Gotbaum phoned his father and stepmother to say he had just discovered his wife, Carol, drunk and passed out in their Upper Manhattan townhouse. An ambulance,...