The country is gravely concerned about jobs, take-home pay, health care, crime and urban riots, terrorism, and other serious challenges. In that environment, big beats small.
Officials in South Carolina and South Florida urged residents Wednesday to begin to prepare for evacuations and stock up on supplies as Hurricane Matthew picked up speed approaching the Eastern seaboard.
Reports of menacing clowns have been spreading across the U.S., fueled largely by social media, and authorities say they are being forced to take them seriously as a potential threat to public safety, particularly at schools.
A Boston man authorities say held a gun to an undercover police officer's head, and an accomplice allegedly involved in an exchange of gunfire with police, have both been held on $500,000 bail.
Zachary Camhi, a 25-year-old classical musician and Boston University grad student who disappeared on a trip to New York City, was found safe, the university announced Tuesday.
For women with morning sickness, a range of remedies may be effective at alleviating mild to severe symptoms, but the evidence on how well they work is lacking, a new review from the United Kingdom finds
Israel carried out airstrikes on Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory landed in a street in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday, the Israeli military said.
A white University of Mississippi student is withdrawing from school and publicly apologizing for his Facebook post about lynching people who were protesting the killing of a black man by North Carolina police officers.
A former Navy lieutenant who worked as a contractor for the same cyberoperations firm as infamous leaker Edward Snowden was secretly arrested by the FBI in recent weeks in connection with the theft of highly classified hacking codes from the National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Two Colombian nationals have been extradited to Los Angeles to face federal charges of overseeing shipments of thousands of pounds of cocaine in Central and South America that ended up in the United States.
Actor Ben Stiller is crediting a prostate cancer screening test for saving his life, revealing today that he was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer two years ago.
State regulators said Wednesday they fear some water districts in drought-stricken California have abandoned conservation efforts as saving has dropped off significantly.
United Nations peacekeepers abandoned their posts when fighting erupted in South Sudan's capital in July and then used tear gas on frightened civilians who sought shelter at the center of the U.N.
Turkey and Iraq summoned each other's ambassadors on Wednesday to protest statements by one country's prime minister and the other's parliament, a move reflecting growing tensions between the two neighbors, both fighting the Islamic State group.
An all-clear was given after a man armed with a machete was shot in a stairwell on the University of Colorado campus on Wednesday morning, according to campus police dispatchers.