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Brad Pitt says he believes he has prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. The condition, also known as “face blindness,” can effect as many as 1 in 50 people, according to Faceblind.org, which researches the disorder.  The 58-year-old actor, who has never been formally diagnosed …

Washington — The number of women who die during or shortly after childbirth is higher in the U.S. than any other developed nation, particularly among women of color. Determining the cause of that racial disparity poses “essentially one of the biggest challenges of public health,” the head of a Harvard task …

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the New York Police Department’s treatment of sex crime victims after concluding there is “significant justification” to do so and after receiving reports of deficiencies for more than a decade, prosecutors said Thursday. Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights …