Because of a rare genetic disorder, children who live in a village in the southwestern Dominican Republic are born female and become male at puberty. According to a report by The Telegraph, the ...

In the village of Salinas in the Dominican Republic, one in 90 girls possess a rare genetic disorder that causes them to become boys at puberty. Known as “guevedoces”, or “penis at 12”, the children ...

On March 19, the Dominican Republic government suspended incoming travelers from arriving to the country. Current visitors were urged to head back home. Bartolo Griffin, the owner of the Dominican ...

In the 1970s, Dr Julianne Imperato traveled to the Dominican Republic upon hearing rumors about girls turning into boys upon hitting puberty in a small town somewhere in the country. The Cornell ...

LOS MARRANITOS, Dominican Republic — The teacher produces her test, a handwritten alphabet, and the student leans toward the paper, straining to identify the letters. When the pen stops at K, Javier ...

In the small, remote village of La Colorada in the Dominican Republic, about 50 children had no reliable way to get to their school, a public facility about six kilometers away. Presently being ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — College basketball teams are allowed to take trips to foreign countries together once every four years. Those trips usually include sightseeing and exhibition games, but last ...

Last December, Canadian airline Westjet surprised two planeloads of passengers by asking what they wanted for Christmas and then delivering on those wishes when their plane landed. Things got ...

Ridgewood — Eleven years ago, a set of Little Leaguers and parents set a course for San Pedro de Macoris, a town in the Dominican Republic known for being the birthplace of an unusual number of Major ...

OUANAMINTHE, Haiti — Several mornings a week for the past five years, Smith Laflur has left his one-room cinder-block shack, walked past the stray goats and the sour cherry tree, down the quiet dirt ...