Five months after the Singapore summit, North Korea’s nuclear program chugs on. “I think right now, we are absolutely stuck,” says North Korea expert Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst.
As Trump cracks down on asylum-seekers, federal lawsuits argue that the administration is turning its back on legal precedent and international law.
Millions of Americans use wearable devices to monitor their diet and fitness. Some insurance companies offer incentives to use them, but privacy advocates caution customers not to share too much data.
Latino turnout was up dramatically in the midterms, according to early voting and other preliminary data. Democrats say Latino votes helped flip house and senate races across the country.
At least 80 people have died throughout the state since the Camp and Woolsey fires broke out earlier this month. The official missing persons list spans 993 names.
Close to 1,500 inmates have been sent to battle the wildfires in Northern California. They are paid less than minimum wage, and some critics have decried the state program slave labor.
A bipartisan coalition of Virginia lawmakers is working to make the state the 38th and final one needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Two-headed snakes don’t live very long in the wild, so when one was found in a Northern Virginia yard, the discovery got the attention of scientists and social media alike.
The donation is the largest individual gift ever made to a single university and is designed to allow the school to be need-blind and loan-free.
Broadhursts Bookshop in Southport, England, sold the book about William the Conqueror that had sat on the shelf for decades. The store’s tweet about the sale has inspired thousands of replies.
Using toilets is not always intuitive. That’s when a sign or two can be helpful — and sometimes hilarity-inducing.
Thieves entered the Netherlands’ Kunsthal in 2012 and made off with seven paintings, allegedly later burned in an oven by the ringleader’s mother. Now the story has taken another strange turn.
Ultimately, even a hand recount didn’t shift the final margin of the race too much. Scott’s win means Republicans have picked up two Senate seats even as the GOP lost substantial ground in the House.
The president refused to admit any culpability in the results, but in a rare move, he acknowledged he made a mistake in not visiting Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day.
Nearly two weeks after Election Day, a statewide recount showed that Republican Gov. Rick Scott continued to hold the lead in the Senate race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.
“Somebody with a technical background might think in a little bit different than the way, for instance, that a lawyer would think,” says Chrissy Houlahan, a new lawmaker with a STEM background.
One minute, Seamus Hughes was reading the book Dragons Love Tacos to his son. The next minute, he stumbled on what could be one of the most closely guarded secrets within the U.S. government.
Now that wildfires are a year-round problem in California, officials are adding emotional support to the services they provide to firefighters in the field.
The president traveled to areas impacted by the fires in California, including the town of Paradise, which was virtually destroyed.
Keeping Florida in the GOP column is a highlight for Republicans this year. While Republicans held onto the Senate, Democrats flipped the House and made major gains in the governor’s contests, too.
News outlets had reported that the White House was looking to placate Turkey to ease pressure on the Saudis, after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
The submarine had 44 crew members when it lost contact with Argentina’s military. Its disappearance has prompted protests by family members of those on board.
After more than a year of negotiations, Prime Minister Theresa May presented a Brexit withdrawal agreement that seemed to unite British politicians across the spectrum in their hatred for it.
The CIA found “nothing of this scale, an operation like this, could possibly have happened without the crown prince knowing about it and authorizing it,” The Washington Post‘s Shane Harris told NPR.
Most children moving to the U.S. from Central America come without adults, hoping to join parents or family already living in the U.S. To succeed, psychologists say, these families need support.
When photographer Simone Francescangeli took pictures of the miners, he was struck by the dangerous environment — and the number of children he saw working in the mines.
The president told reporters that he wrote the answers to questions from the special counsel and that he did so “very easily.” He also said he suspected some were designed to be a “perjury trap.”
Officials are still counting ballots from the midterm elections in several states — in part because of the signature verification process. But signatures change over time, especially young people’s.
Ten times a day, on average, Facebook’s AI-driven self-harm detection system alerts authorities to people who may be about to hurt themselves.
For every person still unaccounted for, there are family members and friends desperately trying to find them.
Also in our weekly roundup: Peer pressure can be used to reduce sexual violence in schools; more students are using Pell Grants over the summer.
The Army opened special operations jobs to women in 2016 but only one has passed the first stage, a 24-day program designed to push soldiers to the brink of mental and physical exhaustion.
The giant panda named Bei Bei at Smithsonian’s National Zoo somersaults down a snow-covered hill. He climbs trees and dangles from branches. He luxuriates on a snow-dusted bed of bamboo.
The National Transportation Safety Board says a natural gas company engineer made a major mistake in developing construction plans, resulting in a disastrous chain reaction.
The state’s previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery, in that order.
Over 45 tons of meat could potentially harbor the food-borne illness, the USDA said. More recalls from other companies could follow, as the government tracks a widespread outbreak of the same strain.
