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He did groundbreaking work toward finding a "theory of everything." He died in an Alpine rock-climbing accident.

The CDC is urging people to consider not using e-cigarette products as it investigates why some users have developed serious illnesses. Officials have identified 450 possible cases nationwide. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

A federal agency is reversing course on the question of whether President Donald Trump tweeted stale information Sunday about Hurricane Dorian potentially hitting Alabama

Dan Patrick, a Republican, has promoted his A-plus grade from the National Rifle Association.

Jon Potter is willing to help as many people as he can, even if it means giving up an organ

Five days after the storm ravaged the Bahamas, 76,000 people are in urgent need of food and water

Shocking before-and-after photos show the devastation Hurricane Dorian unleashed on the Bahamas as it bore down on the island country as a Category 5 storm earlier this week. Dorian killed at least 30 people as it slamme...

Bahamians helped build South Florida in the 1800s. Now the descendants of those early settlers are engaged in a frantic effort to help storm victims in the country many still cherish as home.

Hong Kong police prevented anti-government protesters from blocking access to the airport on Saturday, but fired tear gas for a second night running in the Chinese-ruled city's densely populated district of Mong Kok in t...

The hospitals, all in the New York City region, said there was no danger to patients and advised relatives to use cellphones instead.

Bribery for political, economic, military, and/or other purposes reflects a corrupt society - what characterizes US public and private sectors than any other countries worldwide.

Hard seltzer-obsessed Yuppies are freaking out on Twitter over a nationwide shortage of White Claw. Stores can’t keep the bubbly, low-calorie booze on the shelf due to sky-high demand, Business Insider reported Friday ...

Three senior leaders of Navy SEAL Team 7 were relieved of their positions “due to a loss of confidence that resulted from leadership failures,” Naval Special Warfare Command announced Friday. The news came six weeks ...

Eric Trump touched off a heated Twitter conversation about the US media on Friday, after he outed a Washington Post reporter who’d apparently been email-blasting Trump Organization employees, looking for whistleblowers...

First responders arrived by helicopter to Okracoke Island, hit hard by the hurricane, to help the estimated 800 people who did not evacuate.

The French investigation into the sprawling Jeffrey Epstein sex case is heating up — thanks to two women who are providing evidence against one of his alleged procurers, celebrity model scout Jean-Luc Brunel. The women...

The city's leader promised to withdraw unpopular legislation that ignited protests in June, but demonstrators' demands have expanded since then.

Dozens of dogs in Norway died this week of a mystery illness. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority isn’t sure if the disease is contagious or just a series of individual cases, but acknowledged the situation is serious,...

Berlin residents are throwing some shade at the Chinese government by voting to name their new panda babies “Hong” and “Kong.” One of Berlin’s leading papers, Der Tagesspiegel, asked its readers to come up with...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday congratulated Russia and Ukraine on a long-awaited prisoner swap that could thaw a deep freeze in relations between the two countries since Moscow's annexation of the Crimea region...

An Avengers comic book featuring a kiss between two male superheroes has sold out at a Rio de Janeiro book fair after the city's conservative mayor attempted to block it from sale, according to Agence France-Presse.

Half of the Democratic candidates took part in a CNN town-hall-style event on global warming, and several unveiled detailed plans to address the crisis.