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Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects to further U.S. interests.

One of the hottest weeks of the summer was the perfect time for a group of volunteers to track just how hot the more urban parts of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre can get - and contribute to a national study of urban heat islands.

State police say nine teenage boys who escaped from a detention center in Pennsylvania are back in custody. A Pennsylvania State Police spokesman said they were captured early Monday, after being on the run for less than 12 hours.

In the path of a devastating tornado, volunteers are arriving in Rolling Fork to help with the cleanup and feed those in need. Mercy Chefs deployed mobile kitchen trucks to Mississippi.

The world's largest retailer — like many others — has been absorbing most of the increased costs, but raising prices of some goods.

The Marburg virus is notable for its very high fatality rate. But in the current Marburg outbreak, in Rwanda, the fatality rate is far lower than normal.

The overall increase in the number of Americans with health insurance draws attention to counties where the uninsured rate is still high, many of them in states that chose not to expand Medicaid.

Haunted car washes have become a national phenomenon, with hundreds of Halloween-themed locations around the country.

Amanda Gustafson and Eric Olsen of Swale's song "If You Get Lost" is a standout entry from this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

Afghans and Pakistanis living in Iran flee US-Israeli strikes, making desperate journey through treacherous land borders.