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Babies exposed to marijuana smoke have metabolites of the drug in their urine, researchers say. They think that secondhand marijuana smoke will prove to be as dangerous as secondhand tobacco smoke.

Folk Alley's Elena See and Linda Fahey share their takes on the best Americana, roots and folk records of the year.

Jefferson County, Ala., schools have been under a desegregation order for decades. Now that a majority-white city wants to form its own district, a judge must decide if it's violating civil rights.

With its buzzy loops, clean guitar lines and a soaring Mimi Parker vocal, the band's exquisite new holiday song feels, appropriately enough, like an actual gift.

The president said Democrats have "ceded too much territory" to Republicans in local races. Obama sees his role after leaving office as helping a new generation "rise up."

Alabama boosted its graduation rate with questionable methods and now faces federal and state audits. It's hard to know yet how far off the rate is.

If male doctors were as good as their female counterparts at caring for older people in the hospital, about 32,000 fewer patients a year would die. What do female doctors do better than men?

By comparing the light from anti-atoms with the light from regular atoms, they hope to answer one of the big mysteries of our universe: Why is there so much regular old matter and not much antimatter?

Engineers made a radio receiver with building blocks the size of two atoms. One benefit of a radio so small you can barely see it: The machine works at extremely high temperatures.

German police said at least 12 people were dead and at least 48 people were injured. Police said a possible suspect was in custody.