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A program in Seattle is helping people struggling with addiction and homelessness overcome barriers to medical care, including discrimination from health care providers.

Conservative forces are growing on several school boards in Florida. But in one county, some school board members have held back a right-wing attempt to remove a superintendent.

The 79-year-old Hanssen was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Colorado and later pronounced dead, prison officials said. He is believed to have died of natural causes.

A wayward Cessna Citation business jet set off military and defense alarms in the national capital area, before the plane crashed in Virginia. But big questions remain.

Fire departments have tried to diversify their ranks for years with only modest success. The profession remains overwhelmingly white and male. One California training program is trying to change that.

Spider-Man has kicked off summer blockbuster season with bigger — and broader — attendance than expected. The film opened strongly in 59 countries, with unusually diverse audiences in North America.