Texas Democrats are fleeing the state Sunday in an effort to keep Republicans from approving a new U.S. House map that could boost their slim congressional majority next year. The walkout is ...

As the country continues to deal with the fallout of the infamous Jeffery Epstein files, The Root is taking a closer look at some of the most polarizing conspiracy theories in American history.

A former contractor for the Alabama Department of Human Resources has been charged after a 3-year-old boy, who was in the state’s custody, died in a hot car last month.

When Eva Johnson was hoping to open “the dive bar of wedding venues,” she looked for a space in downtown North St. Paul, ...