President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brooke Rollins, head of the America First Policy Institute, to oversee the Department ...

UN climate negotiations are in overtime in Azerbiajan as countries scramble to land a deal on how to finance the damages brought on by climate change. The impacts often are felt most by poor countries ...

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected methanol poisoning outbreak.

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. Reports from Russian media say he fell from a 5th ...

The strikes were the fourth on Beirut in less than a week. The escalation comes after a U.S. envoy traveled to the region ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

Texas builders warn mass deportations of undocumented migrants could devastate the construction industry, threatening housing ...

NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked the city of Dnipro with an experimental, hypersonic ...

The storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of ...

In a flurry of picks on Friday evening, Trump named three choices for top health jobs. Together they would help the incoming ...