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Doctors and drugmakers may be looking at your social media

By Menaka Wilhelm, Future of You

Doctors and drugmakers are looking at patients' experiences on social media for clues on problems.

7 months after Harvey, flood-control projects’ fate unclear

By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press

Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston's flooding woes went to the top of the area's to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swaths of the nation's fourth-largest city.

‘What it comes down to is life or death’ — Students shout for a revolution at March for Our Lives

By Kamala Kelkar

Emma González, a leader of the March for Our Lives, held silence on stage for most of 6 minutes and 20 seconds, the amount of time it took a shooter to kill her classmates.

UK watchdog assessing evidence from Cambridge Analytica raid

By Associated Press

Investigators from the Information Commissioner's Office spent about seven hours searching the Cambridge Analytica office.

Trump order would ban most transgender troops from serving

By Ken Thomas, Associated Press

President Donald Trump released an order Friday night banning most transgender troops from serving in the military.

More lawsuits filed over the Miami bridge collapse

By Joshua Barajas

Here's a look at what the lawsuits claim and what's next as the investigation into the bridge's failure moves forward.

S&P records worst week in 2 years, as global stocks tumble due to trade fears

By Marley Jay, Associated Press

Stocks around the world plunged Friday as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate.

WATCH: Mister Rogers postage stamp unveiled in Pittsburgh

By Keith Srakocic, Associated Press

It was a beautiful day for the U.S. Postal Service to honor Mister Rogers with a Forever stamp.

Sympathy for white Austin bomber stirs debate about race

By Deepti Hajela, Associated Press

For many observers and activists, public comments about Mark Anthony Conditt were just the latest example in which a white suspect seemed to receive an injection of humanity that is less often extended to blacks, Muslims and others.

Analysis: California’s forced sterilization programs once harmed thousands, especially Latinas

By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira, The Conversation

In the first half of the 20th century, approximately 60,000 people were sterilized under U.S. eugenics programs. California led the nation in this effort at social engineering.