After bans on affirmative action in states from California to Florida, colleges have tried a range of strategies to achieve a diverse student body

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sees diminishing risk for the US to fall into recession, and suggested that a

The nation’s midsection is heading into the July Fourth weekend and instead of enjoying the start of summer people are facing smoky haze, high temperatures and powerful derecho winds that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents

Guyana's president says the country has to hurry if it wants to maximise its recent discoveries.

The proposal to help finance a new ballpark for Major League Baseball's Athletics in Las Vegas has revived nationwide debates about public funding for private stadiums, pitting Nevada’s powerful tourism industry and labor unions against some progressive groups raising concerns about ceding tax revenue when services such as public schools are funded below the national average

Police say the body was recovered late on Tuesday evening, but has not been formally identified.

South Korean rescue workers have pulled six bodies from vehicles trapped in a flooded tunnel as days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes, leaving more than 30 people dead and forcing thousands to evacuate

Satellite images show much of Canada and parts of US blanketed by smoke from the Alberta wildfires.

ABUJA (Reuters) -West Africa's ECOWAS bloc aims to send a parliamentary committee to Niger to meet coup leaders who took

The Supreme Court has ruled against an organization of Puerto Rican journalists in its quest for documents from the financial oversight board created to deal with the island territory’s bankruptcy

The human rights group Amnesty International says civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus

Madalina Cojocari's mother shared a theory that her stepfather Chris 'gave the girl away for money'