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In a society where black people have power, beating children and posting it on social media is just as much about performing respectability as it is punishing wrongdoing.

Senate Republicans unleashed the "nuclear option" on Thursday, essentially ensuring that Neil Gorsuch would be confirmed on Friday. The final vote was 54-45, mostly along party lines.

President Trump's latest travel ban is stuck in legal limbo, but many still think it's having an effect on American colleges and universities.

Russia blamed the strike on "speculations on children's photos." At the U.N., Ambassador Nikki Haley said, "The moral stain of the Assad regime could no longer go unanswered."

Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to President Trump's Florida resort ended Friday, hours after a U.S. strike on Syria. But it's not the only tough issue confronting the leaders. Here's a rundown.

Still, the state will retain some rules it placed on water use during the years-long drought. "This drought emergency is over," Brown said Friday, "but the next drought could be around the corner."

Russia had been giving President Trump the soft touch. But following the U.S. missile strike on Syria, hopes for friendlier relations are fizzling and the Kremlin's rhetorical cease-fire is over.

The two-year legal battle concerned a restaurant in Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel. Andrés pulled out of the deal in 2015 after Trump made comments disparaging Mexicans.

"Our feelings today are mixed between happiness and sadness," a Syrian woman tells NPR. "We're tired inside. We're tired of planes. We want to live a normal life."

About 30 percent of Americans are predisposed to celiac disease, but only 1 percent get the disease. A new study finds that a common virus may play a role in determining who gets the disease.