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A bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide has been approved by the California state legislature, and now awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown.

Vinci shocked tennis fans on Friday when she ended Serena William's bid for a calendar Grand Slam, but fell to Pennetta in an all-Italian final matchup. It's Pennetta's first Grand Slam title.

In symbolic hope for a sweet new year, many Jews will mark the start of Rosh Hashanah with honey cake. The cake is sentimental, but not always beloved. Here, a delectable update to the ancient recipe.

For many photojournalists, Instagram has become a "modern-day Polaroid camera" used to take quick snapshots of important issues — and visual media giants have taken notice.

Each of the ten narrators in Ceridwen Dovey's new book is an animal affected by human warfare. Critic Michael Schaub says the book lacks the imagination it would need to pull off its high concept.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said trains between Austria and Germany would be suspended for 12 hours "to return to orderly procedures" for entering the country.

Kentucky state police believe the suspect, Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, led Trooper Cameron Ponder on a nearly 10-mile pursuit before shooting at his police car.

The Kentucky clerk says she asked that her name and title be taken off marriage licenses but that she won't stop her deputies from issuing them. She says she has "great doubts" the licenses are valid.

"We have begun to build a problem-solving machine," say the members of a governor-appointed panel that has spent months identifying entrenched issues in Ferguson and St. Louis.

The fight over a closure of a struggling public high school in Chicago raises questions about what's disrupted and upended when a community loses one of its central institutions.