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A fast-growing network of activists sees the pandemic as an opportunity to push legislation that bans the consumption of dog and cat meats.

Was I wasting my life -- my fragile, fleeting life -- on activities I neither cared about nor enjoyed?

Safoora Zargar was arrested in April and charged under stringent anti-terror law for protesting against citizenship law.

A disturbing video has emerged of a double amputee being pepper-sprayed by police during a protest in Columbus, Ohio — and left crawling on the ground after they appear to remove his prosthetic legs, according to repor...

The drug is currently available only as an IV infusion

As protesters demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism again clashed with authorities outside the White House on Monday night, the president took to Twitter to ask why he didn’t see a different kind of ...

A U.S. Army soldier gave classified information about American troops stationed overseas to a white supremacist group, federal prosecutors alleged Monday.

One-third of Medicare recipients diagnosed with Covid had to be hospitalized, and more than a quarter of that group died, according to federal data released Monday.

At vigil for slain 3-year-old in Chicago's Austin neighborhood: 'Another mother has to bury another son and another dream dies'

A Baltimore restaurant manager turned away a black woman and her son due to the boy's outfit - despite a white child nearby dressed in similar athletic wear who was served.

Protesters attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in a park just outside the White House on Monday night. Photos from Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. show a rope tied around the statue of Jackson with the ...

President Trump's campaign asked to add another, earlier debate and proposed that each campaign have a role in selecting the debate moderators

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that officials will move to wind down the city’s autonomous protest zone following two shootings in the area over the weekend. Police officers will also soon return to the abandon...

Rapid increases in cases across the U.S. South and West are raising fears that progress against COVID-19 is fading

White House officials claimed that Trump was joking when he said Saturday that he asked to slow down testing.

Imperial College London has "reached a significant milestone" after delivering a small dose of its coronavirus vaccine candidate to the first healthy volunteer in its trial. So far, all has gone according to plan. The cl...

A commuter train in Italy derailed on Monday after a landslide sent boulders onto the tracks, according to officials.

President Trump on Tuesday said efforts by protesters to create an “Autonomous Zone” in the capital will be “met with serious force.” “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long a...

Distancing rule will reduce from July 4 when pubs and restaurants are allowed to reopen in England, UK leader says.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that the coronavirus is spreading there "at an unacceptable rate" — but a full shut down "will always be the last option" for the Lone Star State. Abbott struck a newly urgent tone...

In "The Biggest Bluff," Maria Konnikova uses her own experience learning to beat the odds at poker to examine how much of life is chance and how much self-determined.

The university was scheduled to host the second of three debates between Trump and Biden this fall.