The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

Democratic officials shot back that Trump has failed to deliver the federal funds needed for rebuilding efforts.

After years of court battles, debate, and continued concerns about violence and excessive force plaguing the troubled jails system, a federal judge officially appointed former CIA officer Nicholas ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans.

American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly became another lightning rod for America’s ...

President Donald Trump has directed the federal government to take control of the post-fire rebuilding process in Los Angeles ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 27 that allows the federal government to leapfrog local leaders and ...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.