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Mothers and fathers can make a difference in whether their kids become spenders or savers, studies have found. Young people whose families had included them in conversations about money and budgets were much more likely to make more responsible financial decisions in the future.

In an activist town in the English countryside, parents have sparked a global movement by planning law-breaking disruptions so their Brexit-consumed politicians will focus on stopping climate change.

The books we're spotlighting this month don't exactly radiate escapist good vibes — but they do offer the opportunity to step into someone else's life and get to know their view of our shared world.

Advocates for ending birthright citizenship point to "birth tourism" schemes to argue that the legal principle is ripe for exploitation and threatens national security. Experts say it's not so simple.

The U.S. fertility rate continued its slide to historic levels, due to plunging teen pregnancies and far more women delaying motherhood into their 30s and 40s.

In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds.

It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.

Title X is a 56-year-old federal grant program that supports thousands of clinics that provide birth control and STI testing and treatment. Those clinics could face a funding gap because of a Trump administration delay.

Scientists got a rare look at the birth of a sperm whale and found that it took a group effort.

More than two years later, on what would have been Prine's 76th birthday, musicians gathered to pay tribute.