Rep. Harry Benton resigned from the Illinois House on Friday in the wake of a legislative inspector general investigation ...

People in the Northern Mariana Islands – remote U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean – are preparing for Super Typhoon Bavi, ...

Women make up a miniscule 3% of construction workers in Kenya. But a nonprofit group is offering them a way to get into the ...

The husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a hit-and-run in California that left a parked car with ...

A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after ...

President Trump lauded America's storied history on Saturday night in a speech marking the 250th anniversary of its ...

President Trump ushered in America's 250th anniversary with a darkly political speech that swerved from the typically ...

A 1978 protest by wheelchair users won a right many now take for granted: boarding a city bus. NPR's Joe Shapiro and Colorado Public Radio's Stephanie Wolf explain.

Foreign dignitaries are gathering in Iran for a week of funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, more than four months after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.

Proposals to build six data centers in the small community of Archbald, Pennsylvania, have brought strangers together to fight the plans there — and elsewhere in the state.

When American striker Folarin Balogun received a red card in Wednesday's World Cup match against Bosnia-Herzegovina, it had huge repercussions for Monday's game against Belgium.

We take a look at President Trump's July 4th speech, as well as his reluctance to sign the bipartisan housing bill intended to help make homes affordable for Americans.