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The deal to fight the mosquito-borne virus came after lawmakers dropped a controversial provision to block payments to Planned Parenthood for women's health care.

Experts said homicides and other violence remain at low rates compared with a crime wave from 20 years ago.

Scientists estimated how contagious the virus is in Colombia — and that gives us some clues to how it might spread in the U.S.

Two major quakes hit southern Japan barely a day apart, killing at least 41 people and flattening at least 90 homes. Now, rescue crews are searching for survivors and assessing the damage.

Suicide, drug abuse and alcohol have started to shorten the lives of white women, a U.S. report on data from 2013 to 2014 suggests. Life-expectancy for many black men went up from 71.8 years to 72.2.

The Brazilian army says a soldier fatally shot the jaguar, which had slipped out of its leash shortly after it was displayed as part of an Olympic torch relay event in the Amazonian city of Manaus.

The U.S. government filed a federal case Thursday aimed at recovering artifacts looted by ISIS. It centers on an ISIS leader believed to be involved in mistreatment of American hostage Kayla Mueller.

Enrique Marquez Jr., a friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, will plead guilty to conspiring with Farook. Fourteen people died in the 2015 attack.

Launch Complex 39A, the site of the Apollo 11 mission, has quite a storied past. Now, it's on the brink of a new era — but it'll have to wait a bit, after Saturday's launch was scrubbed for 24 hours.

The doctor, who performed the world's first liver transplant surgery in 1963, eventually earned the moniker "father of transplantation."