“Storybook Pride Prom” in Jacksonville, Fla., and Drag Queen Story Hour in Pittsburgh were canceled this weekend after both events’ organizers decided they could not ensure a safe space.
Kranz led the earliest missions to the moon, including Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, and says he wants the room to inspire American students to study science and technology.
Whether the symbolism of President Trump stepping into North Korea carries with it the promise of change, or little more than dramatic optics, remains the subject of debate.
As more businesses face public and political scrutiny for making money off of the Trump administration’s detention of migrants, many activists say the firms involved try to remain veiled in secrecy.
Drug companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to end lawsuits tied to the opioid epidemic. As payouts grow, government leaders are fighting over where the money should go.
Even with visits to the local pantry, many families struggle to get enough to eat, as writer Tamara Gane knows first-hand. Food banks say rethinking our donations could help them stretch their money.
The presidential hopeful told NPR that arguments he and Joe Biden are too old to be president are “pretty superficial.” And he warned that moderation may not excite voters enough to win in 2020.
President Trump greeted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas. He briefly stepped over into North Korea, a first for a sitting U.S. president.
Earlier this month, Luis Alvarez, 53, sat alongside former Daily Show host Jon Stewart and delivered a wrenching testimony in support of new funding for the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund.
With new offerings from Audi, Jaguar and Porsche, Tesla is no longer the only game in town for people looking to drop big bucks on a high-performance electric vehicle.
President Trump threatened to delay next year’s constitutionally mandated head count hours after the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off 2020 census forms for now.
The new faces on stage personified the change. Three were in their 30s, four in their 40s, with six women, five people of color and an Indiana mayor who mentioned his husband in his first answer.
As the rural town of Fort Scott, Kan., grapples with the closure of its hospital, cancer patients bear a heavy burden. They now have to go elsewhere for treatments they used to get locally.
Amid Venezuela’s catastrophic economic meltdown, education experts say that it’s getting much harder for children to get a good grasp of history, geography and their ABCs.
At the Democratic debate, candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders pushed the idea that even a strong economy isn’t working for everyone. But will voters latch onto that?
President Trump said the two countries would “continue the negotiation.” He said the U.S. would keep existing tariffs in place, but would not impose new tariffs on Chinese imports.
The Trump administration had planned to transfer Defense Department funds intended for anti-drug activities. The judge ruled Friday in a lawsuit against the switch filed by the Sierra Club and others.
The bill says that workplace dress codes and grooming policies that ban Afros, braids and other hairstyles burden or punish black employees more than any other group.
President Trump is in Japan for the G-20 economic summit, but will head for South Korea on Saturday. He asked Kim Jong Un to shake hands in the demilitarized zone between the Koreas.
Abigail Disney is among the superrich speaking out against income inequality. When Disney workers told her they were rationing insulin and sleeping in cars, she says, she felt an indescribable rage.
Scientists are warning Alabamians to be cautious of wasp colonies which can grow as big as a Volkswagen Beetle. The state may be on track to mirror 2006 where more than 90 super nests were reported.
The bust “resulted in the largest weapons seizure in Argentine history,” a U.S. federal official said. A married couple in their 60s who lived in Broward County, Fla., have been arrested.
It comes as much of Europe, including Spain and Germany, sees record-breaking temperatures.
Epic. Intense. Pressure-packed. Match of the tournament. The U.S. got the scoring started early, and the game lived up to the hype.
The district attorney overseeing the Alabama case called the incident a tragedy and said she is deliberating whether to move forward with prosecution, reduce the charge or drop it altogether.
In an NPR interview, a young Sen. Joe Biden was asked about whether he would support a constitutional amendment to limit court-ordered busing “if it can’t be done through a piece of legislation.”
For years, city workers removed the rims each evening from some Toronto parks in response to noise complaints from neighbors. Then a video made the basketball-mad city change its mind.
“We were contacted by people all over the country who said, ‘We’d like to collect glasses for you, how do we become a collection center?’ ” says Mike Simmons, president of Astronomers Without Borders.
At the Rainbow PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago, the former vice president said he “never opposed voluntary busing” — though he did oppose mandatory busing policy.
The former president says President Trump “was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
Health inequities are getting worse, according to new research. Factors like income, race and gender are playing a larger role in health outcomes than they did 25 years ago.
From measles to yellow fever to just plain heat, there are lots of risks for tourists. Here’s how to take stock of your vacation destination.
Showtime’s miniseries chronicles the rise and fall of the cable news mogul. But The Loudest Voice‘s treatment of the sexual harassment case against Ailes is so lurid it begins to feel exploitative.
“This is a constitutional challenge” to Georgia’s law, the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit, in which they call the abortion restrictions “an affront to the dignity and health of Georgians.”
Nicolás Maduro Guerra is a member of the pro-government National Constituent Assembly. It’s the administration’s latest effort to unseat the country’s government.
Artificial intelligence becomes hard to ignore when it starts taking over tasks that used to require human judgment — such as winnowing job applications or prioritizing stories in a news feed.
