Triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the catastrophic event was the ...

An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, according to the Health ...

Pop culture critic Linda Holmes has been making this annual list since 2010. Big, small, inspirational, silly — what these ...

The burst of new laws follows a landmark Supreme Court ruling, and reflects public frustration with record-high homelessness.

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The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...

Jobless workers will be able to collect unemployment benefits for a little more than six months under bills signed Monday by ...

The Mega Millions prize has now grown to an estimated $1.15 billion, which could be the fifth-largest jackpot in the game's ...

To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message urged "all people of all nations" to find courage "to silence the sounds of ...

Street gangs forced the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince to close earlier this year. As journalists gathered to cover its ...

The death of a Swiss Olympic snowboarder this week is a reminder that even the most skilled and experienced athletes are not ...