To prevent pregnancy after sex, U.S. teenage girls and young women are more likely to rely on unproven strategies such as prayer, exercise and jumping up and down than they are on evidence-based ...

As days grow shorter and darkness arrives earlier across much of the country, a new study suggests that brighter streetlights ...

A half-dozen states enacted laws this year changing voting rules for people with felony convictions, including when their ...

A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats.