State officials from Maine to New York issued alerts for fine particulate matter, a toxic byproduct of wildfires that is ...

Americans living in 10 states may have to fork over nearly $30,000 just to give birth, shocking new figures published by health insurance claims analyst FAIR Health have revealed.

Democrats, under pressure from their base to match GOP tactics, have grown more forceful in their messaging and are taking ...

The Supreme Court has extended a pause, for now, on a lower court ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that ...

Federal scientists are launching an ambitious mapping project to hunt for what could be a mother lode of rare earth elements ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state ...

The amoeba can be found in warm freshwater but occasionally has been detected in tap water. The South Carolina health agency ...

The 10 states at the bottom were Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Utah, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and ...

Chatham: On Friday, a white shark was spotted about 30 feet off North Beach Island, traveling south. The next morning, an ...

President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections.

The nationwide protests are in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine civil rights and democratic ...