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People bike on the beach ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Atlantic Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. Droves of people in the U.S. have begun evacuating coastal areas ahead of the storm, which tracked a deadly path through the Caribbean in a maelstrom of wind, mud and water.

Millions Of Coastal Residents Warned To Flee Inland As Hurricane Nears Florida

Hundreds of people died as Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center says the hurricane conditions will affect eastern Florida through Friday.

Zanele Muholi Reflects On 10 Years Documenting LGBTI South Africa

In 2006, South Africa became the fifth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. While social justice activists around the world saw this...

Florida Department of Health workers at a temporary clinic set up in Miami Beach in September package up a urine sample to be tested for the Zika virus. Pregnant women in Texas and Florida have complained it can take as long as a month or more to get their Zika test results.

Public Health Labs Hope Federal Funds Will Speed Zika Test Results

But they'll have to wait a while. The portion of the $394 million Congress allocated to help pregnant women find out more quickly if they have Zika isn't expected to get to strained labs until 2017.

A game rancher near Port Elizabeth who couldn't afford the high cost of protecting his rhinos from poachers sold this one to a more secure operation. The rhino, blindfolded and wearing earplugs to calm it, will be sedated and accompanied by a veterinarian during the 20-hour truck journey to its new home.

Rhino Horn: The Most Valuable Appendage In Illegal Wildlife Trade

Journalist Bryan Christy estimates the wholesale market for rhino horn is a quarter of a billion dollars. Customers think the horn has healing powers. Criminal syndicates take the money.

Palm trees sway in high gusts of wind, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Vero Beach, Fla. Hurricane Matthew continues to make a path for Florida's east coast from the Bahamas.

Southeast NC Under Hurricane Warning As Matthew Moves North

Update 2:15 p.m. Friday, 10/7/16 The eye of Hurricane Matthew is now expected to come closer to the North Carolina coast than forecasters predicted. In...

U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein speaks outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., on Nov. 12, 2010.

Prosecutor Leading NSA Secrets Case Is The Ultimate Survivor

Rod Rosenstein has served as U.S. attorney in Baltimore for 11 years, outlasting all of his counterparts in the Bush administration and most from the Obama years, too.

Yisrael Kristal is a Holocaust survivor and the world's oldest man, according to Guinness World Records. He celebrated his long-delayed bar mitzvah this week at the age of 113.

World's Oldest Man Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah 100 Years Late

Two world wars and the Holocaust derailed Yisrael Kristal's bar mitzvah celebration until he turned 113 years old. His family held the ritual for him this week in Israel.

Millennials Are Now The Largest Generation. How Will They Influence The Presidential Election?

Millennials could be the new big factor in the election. They have overtaken Baby Boomers as the largest generation and more of them are taking an...

I-77 toll lane construction near Exit 23 in Huntersville.

Anti-Toll Business Group Backs Cooper Over McCrory

An anti-toll business group in the Lake Norman area is trying to keep the issue of toll lanes on I-77 alive in the November election by backing...

Olin Tezcatlipoca, left from the Mexica Movement marches with other demonstrators to a statue of Christopher Columbus during a protest against Columbus Day in Grand Park, Los Angeles, last year.

Indigenous Peoples' Day Gains Momentum As A Replacement For Columbus Day

Denver, where Columbus Day was first celebrated about 100 years ago, now permanently recognizes Indigenous Peoples' Day.

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