The word "dude" is often associated with the '80s and '90s. But its origin is rooted much, much farther back in American ...

Trump has threatened to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, challenging the Fed's independence. Experts say he's not the first ...

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens but in minuscule ...

The U.K. says it plans to recognize a Palestinian state, as global pressure builds on Israel to let more aid into Gaza, where a UN-backed panel warns famine is already unfolding.

A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding ...

The gunman accused of killing four people in New York City suspected he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE — a ...

Susan Monarez is the first director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to require Senate confirmation. She's ...

An influential poet has died at the age of 61. Thomas Sayers Ellis was the founder of a community of Black poets, as well as a musician, photographer and bandleader.

Compounding pharmacies are crimping sales of Novo Nordisk's obesity drug Wegovy by making what are essentially copies of the ...

As President Trump bends the federal government to fit his agenda, he is also gilding the White House to suit his aesthetics.

The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.

Earlier this year, Iran ordered Afghans living illegally in the country to leave. Since then, the government has labeled them ...