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Fracking now accounts for more than half of all U.S. oil output, according to the Energy Information Administration.

President Obama says San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was exercising his constitutional right to protest when he sat during the national anthem.

"Don't wear white after Labor Day!" chirp the ancient etiquette experts and the aunties glaring over their plates of ambrosia salad at your snowy mid-September outfit. Are we still doing that old fashion rule, or nah?

Some single moms say they have to be both mother and father to their kids.

Georgetown would likely not still be in existence without the sale of slaves from Jesuit plantations in 1838, writes alumna Dorothy Brown

Some antibacterial washes can no longer be marketed, and there's no evidence they are any better than plain soap and water, FDA says.

Donald Trump in a recent speech was actually backing away from one of his most controversial GOP primary-season immigration proposals -- mass deportations -- former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday.

The man was about to snap. He had just lost a child.

US soccer international and Seattle Reign midfielder Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem before her team's clash with the Chicago Red Stars in a show of solidarity with San Francisco 49ers' quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Hermine picked up speed as it marched toward the East Coast, ruining the holiday weekend for some as it closed beaches as far north as New York.

When an earthquake struck Oklahoma on Saturday, one of the first steps state officials took was to shut down 37 of the state's 3,200 active disposal wells -- a move that drew national attention to the link between oil and gas drilling and earthquakes.

An alleged gang member opened fire while he was visiting a county jail in California, leaving two veteran correctional officers critically wounded, authorities said.

The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, his mother told Minneapolis television station KARE in a text on Saturday.

Too lenient is how critics condemned the six-month jail sentence for Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

A United States spy agency is apologizing for a tweet that jabbed at China over its treatment of American reporters who had traveled with President Barack Obama to cover the G20 meeting there.

Donald Trump's campaign seized on Bernie Sanders' comments Sunday about Hillary Clinton's relations to her family foundation, taking license to make them sound more critical of her than he said in a television interview.

Heller is the co-founder of Ruthless Records, the label behind hip-hop group N.W.A., which launched the careers of rappers Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Easy-E in the 1980s.

Heather Long writes that the U.S. trails in financial literacy and many people are unprepared to make key decisions about spending, borrowing and saving for retirement

Hillary Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine compared Donald Trump's seeming encouragement of Russia to hack and release Clinton's emails to Watergate.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday morning near Pawnee, Oklahoma, and rattled through at least six surrounding states in the US heartland, according to the US Geological Survey.