Much of the Midwest was once a great swath of prairie and oak savanna before it was transformed by farms, patchy forests and ...

A federal grand jury indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday after a long corruption investigation.

The debate over how much teachers and parents should be responsible for paying for school supplies is being enflamed this ...

A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen ...

Dr. Ben deBoisblanc was a physician working at Charity Hospital when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast 20 years ago. The ...

The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to more than 1,400 staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection ...

Trump and Putin meet in Alaska today. Here's what you need to know before the summit. And, Texas Democrats could end their ...

Here & Now hosts Scott Tong and Peter O’Dowd discuss the political stakes for President Trump as he tries to end the war in Ukraine and takes over the Washington, D.C. police department. This article ...

In the multi-part documentary “My Undesirable Friends,” filmmaker Julia Loktev follows a group of independent journalists in Moscow who've been labeled "foreign agents" by the Putin regime.

Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday, challenging President Trump's unprecedented federal takeover of the city's police force, calling it "brazenly unlawful." ...

For foreigners, the risks of visiting China have been growing, including exit bans, arbitrary arrests, and a host of vague laws about security.

The Inca society kept records by encoding information into a system of knotted strings. A new analysis of hair woven into these strings suggests that this record-keeping wasn't just an activity by ...