U.S. & World

The Justice Department says abortion care must be allowed in emergencies that seriously threaten a woman’s health under a federal health care law that requires hospitals accepting Medicare to provide emergency care regardless of patients’ ability to pay.

Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. 

Did you notice that today’s date 4/24/24 reads the same forward and backward? That’s because the month of April features 11 palindrome dates.

“Nuestro planeta: voces del cambio climático,” is a documentary from Telemundo Stations Group that seeks to explain how climate change is affecting and transforming our daily lives.

A Douglas C-54 Skymaster airplane carrying two people crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday and burst into flames, authorities said. No survivors have been found.

The revised legislation extends the deadline, giving ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, and a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress

The FDA is waiting on test results on the effects of pasteurization on the virus in cow’s milk, but to date, it’s seen nothing that would change the assessment that commercial milk is safe.

A pit bull was hurt after being shot by a Philadelphia police officer for attacking a Pomeranian in West Oak Lane last week, officials said.

A Korean War veteran from Minnesota who still carries shrapnel in his leg from when he was wounded in combat will finally get his Purple Heart medal, 73 years late.

A Virginia boy who died of smoke inhalation from a house fire earlier this month could have escaped but chose to protect his 3-year-old brother.

The couple was robbed and fatally shot before their bodies were discovered off a county road in January 2015.

Tennessee Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that would let some teachers and staff carry concealed handguns on public school grounds.

The affected products were sold in the Eastern United States and California, as well as online nationally.

If you have any $1 bills lying around in your wallet or under your couch, you might want to think twice before using them. What to know.

The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November.

Following a seven-day trial, a U.S. Navy Sailor based in Japan was found guilty of attempted espionage for providing classified material to a foreign government and other related charges, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) said.