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Demolition supervisor John Feal was working at ground zero 16 years ago when an 8,000-pound piece of steel crushed his foot. After being denied medical compensation, he became an advocate for others.

Facing opposition from China and Russia against even tougher sanctions, the U.S. compromised to win a unanimous resolution.

Irma is now a post-tropical cyclone, with top winds of only 10 mph — a far cry from the Category 4 storm that ravaged the Florida Keys on Sunday.

Also: FEMA starts giving financial aid to Hurricane Harvey victims; the U.S. urges Myanmar to protect fleeing Rohingya Muslims; and President Trump's commission on voting meets again today.

For decades the Pap test was the only option for cervical cancer screening. Now there's the HPV test, too. A federal task force says that for most women, either test will do just fine.

A deal between China's dominant tech companies reveals a lot about the country's approach to policing culture.

Don't understand what the independent Vermont senator's single-payer plan is? Here are the bullet points. (For starters, his new program would not look a whole lot like Medicare.)

Flooding in Houston and utility outages led to belches of fumes from refineries and other industrial sites. Residents of a region already struggling with air pollution wonder: Is it safe to breathe?

Also: What's in Bernie Sanders' proposed health legislation; several Marines are burned in a training accident in California; and the Cleveland Indians win their 21st game in a row.

"We wanted to help others," a survivor tells Reuters. "There was nothing we could do." The victims were mostly children whose escape was blocked.