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President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House Tuesday. They discussed aid for Africa and global warming, subjects on which they disagree. Bush pledged an additional $674 million for famine relief in Africa, but it's far less than what Blair was seeking.

Alexandra Fuller's new memoir recounts her wrenching decision to leave Africa and move to Wyoming with her American husband — and how their marriage fell apart away from the chaos of Africa.

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The European Union has published an exhaustive 10-page list of hundreds of U.S. products that could be subject to European tariffs.

The university's trustees voted to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.

The only clinic providing surgical abortions in Wyoming is open, one year after a firebombing stopped construction. The state's only other abortion provider offers medication abortions only.

Disease researchers from South Africa were the first to identify the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. Scientists there are racing to detect new pathogens before they can spark another pandemic.

Ben Lecomte wants to be the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean — a 5,500-mile journey. Doctors will monitor his heart remotely to see how intensive exercise affects this vital muscle.

Since 2011, the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has had 16 shark attacks, seven of them fatal. It's a sharp rise from previous years; Australia is the only country with more deaths during this span.

These sharks have a hidden life that has becoming a lot less hidden, thanks to a scientific expedition that was years in the making.