The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

The Federal Reserve will likely hold interest rates steady Wednesday as President Trump's tariffs threaten to raise prices ...

Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake says Voice of America will rely on coverage from the far-right OAN network. OAN has ...

Community Plate seeks to bring people together over shared potluck suppers of classic casseroles.

Diminishing access to four-year universities and majors has been holding rural students back. Community colleges say they can ...

The U.S. went through a prison-building boom decades ago. But today, many prisons are closing down, and that's hit some economies in rural America especially hard.

The superpowers have been locked in a geopolitical blinking contest, waiting for the other side to reach out. The talks in Switzerland are the first concrete sign of a potential thaw in the deadlock.

Hundreds of flight delays and cancellations at Newark's airport over the past several days are giving passengers headaches ...

Four women are accusing R&B legend Smokey Robinson of sexual battery, rape and other offenses in a complaint for damages ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he is passing on running for the U..S Senate in next year's midterm elections, a blow to Republicans who spent months courting him to challenge Democratic incumbent.

Six months after the election, a federal judge has ordered that a contest for the North Carolina should finally be over, in a case that targeted thousands of votes on technical grounds.

For the first time since his confirmation, Secretary of VA Doug Collins appeared before the Senate VA committee, after three months of controversial VA policy announcements.