North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

More than 1.3 million people were plunged into darkness early Tuesday. Failure of an underground power line is believed to be ...

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has ...

NPR's health reporters followed the emerging science on what keeps our brains and our minds healthy. Here are highlights of ...

Dual-licensed Ohio dispensaries have made more than $200 million worth of non-medical marijuana sales as of mid-December, ...

Congress has passed the Social Security Fairness Act and it eliminates provisions that deny social security recipients from getting the full amount of what they've paid into the system.

Watching a huge ball descend down a pole in Times Square has been a beloved New Year's Eve tradition for over a century. Here ...

It's almost the new year, which means states across the country will enact thousands of new laws from new tax structures to ...

Blake Lively's civil rights complaint against Justin Baldoni isn't just dominating headlines. It's also inspiring other actresses to speak out against the toxic masculinity and on-set harassment they ...

Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A ...