Under President George W. Bush, the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global leader in supporting family planning, driven by a conservative ideology that favored abstinence and shied away from providing contraceptive devices in developing countries, even to married women.
Bush's mammoth global anti-AIDS initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, poured billions of dollars into Africa but prohibited groups from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs, whose budgets flat-lined.
Authorities evacuated more than 1,000 people from Indonesia's Mount Rinjani after a sub-volcano began erupting, but...
A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been...
A top-secret US military project from the cold war and the toxic waste it conceals, thought...
