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Many New York public housing residents once trusted the police who patrolled their communities. Since an officer killed an unarmed man in public housing, some are pressing to change police tactics.

Bishop pine only grows in a handful of places on the West Coast. In one of those places, the drought-stricken Channel Islands off the coast of California, they're dying off in huge numbers.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency said one of its employees was operating the quad copter that crashed Monday on the grounds of the executive mansion. The worker was off duty at the time.

Since it was posted in July, the music video for "Gangnam Style," by the Korean rapper Psy, has gotten more than 160 million views. The song recently made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The agency says the person who had been operating the device reported that it crashed after they lost control. The White House says the device posed no threat.

Conan O'Brien takes over Monday The Tonight Show on NBC; a look back at the opening nights of the show's previous four hosts: Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

Nature and nurture both matter, and having love and support from parents early on makes make academic and social success as an adult more likely, a study finds. But a child's temperament matters too.

The band's name has become shorthand for everything reviled about modern rock. But the band is among the most successful money-makers in the music industry — and they're laughing all the way to the bank.

The airport and metro station bombings in Brussels killed a total of 35 people, including three attackers, according to Belgium's minister of social affairs and health.

Every year, hundreds of people apply for a chance to volunteer to decorate the White House for the holidays. All 70,000 ornaments and 8,000 snowflakes of it.

Unwanted chicks are filling up some city shelters around the country, and some activists are blaming fair-weather hipster farmers. But a closer look reveals another root cause: When urban farmers order hens, they often end up instead with roosters — illegal in many cities.

Some health plans in Massachusetts are putting tighter limits on painkiller prescriptions. Others are hiring their own social workers to help customers who struggle with opioid abuse quit for good.