Hurricane Matthew survivors “have never seen anything like this.” The Category 4 hurricane was the fiercest storm to make landfall here in 52 years.

The AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs is gathering information to "outline the current landscape" on physician-assisted suicide.

The United Nations reports that more than 50 percent of the world’s 21.3 million refugees are children.

The death toll in Haiti had exceeded 370.

Pope Francis made a surprise visit on Oct. 4 to the town of Amatrice in Italy, recently devastated by an earthquake, and told survivors there: “From the first moment” of the tremblor on Aug. 24, “I felt the need to be here.”

The Russian countermeasures on proliferation followed quickly on the heels of a U.S. decision to suspend what had become fruitless negotiations toward a cease-fire in Syria. The setback does not bode well for near-term progress on U.S.-Russia disarmament, an effort that has been stalled for years af