The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...

At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or ...

The pause of billions of dollars in research funding to universities has had devastating effects on cancer research as lab ...

Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or ...

The Storm Prediction Center had tallied 883 local tornado reports this year as of Monday, which was 35% higher than average ...

A lot of American adults — about 3 in 10 — make use of astrology, tarot cards or fortune tellers at least once a year. But only a small fraction of them rely on what they learn ...

After his best friend and four other of his fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate wants to become his own attorney ...

The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents agreed Wednesday that Palestinian factions won’t use Lebanon as a launchpad for any attacks against Israel, and to remove weapons that ...

President Vladimir Putin visited Russia’s Kursk region for the first time since Moscow claimed that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area last month, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin ...

A judge has ordered U.S. officials to appear at an emergency hearing Wednesday to answer questions about their apparent deportation of immigrants to South Sudan and other ...

Florida was the first state to pass a law regulating the use of cellphones in schools in 2023. Just two years later, half of ...

On a rainy March evening, John Bateman puts on his boots and a headlamp and heads to a wetland cut through by a busy road. As he walks, he scans the pavement for spring ...