The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic ...

A Pennsylvania court on Tuesday ruled 6-1 that the secretary of state has the authority to direct counties not to allow ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

The couple married in 2014, but separated two years later. A lengthy legal battle ensued over custody of their children and ...

World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who escaped an Israeli airstrike in Yemen, says Gaza's health ...

More than 1.3 million people were plunged into darkness early Tuesday. Failure of an underground power line is believed to be ...

It's almost the new year, which means states across the country will enact thousands of new laws from new tax structures to ...

Construction starts Thursday on a light-rail project that will disrupt the commute of T riders Downtown for the next two ...

NPR's health reporters followed the emerging science on what keeps our brains and our minds healthy. Here are highlights of ...

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has ...

The legislation, which was signed into law in December 1974 by President Gerald Ford, has touched everything from waterborne ...