Nancy Pelosi is poised to once again be speaker of the House, after cutting a deal with several House Democrats who had previously opposed her. Pelosi will serve a maximum of four years in the post.
“I wanted to understand how such a distressing, degrading and high-risk set of events could have occurred in a 21st Century Australian prison,” the head of a prison watchdog said on Wednesday.
When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.
Javier Errázuriz had been accused of ignoring sexual abuse in Chile. George Pell has reportedly been found guilty of sexually assaulting children in Australia.
Lawmakers are expected to vote this week to overhaul how Congress handles accusations of sexual misconduct. The deal follows a nearly yearlong standoff over member liability and other issues.
Remembering Rosanelle Eaton, the North Carolina woman who in her 90s became the face of efforts to overturn laws that civil rights activists said discriminated against black voters.
The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the “most unprecedented transition in history” in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.
A bipartisan resolution directs the administration to end military assistance to the Saudi-led conflict. It draws on the Vietnam-era War Powers Act, marking the first debate on this war authority.
Tribune Publishing secretly started to pay more than $2.5 million to a fired news executive to settle a lawsuit. It sought to keep a slur by controlling owner Michael Ferro from becoming public.
American teens are chronically sleep deprived, in part because of early school start times. But how much difference can a later start make? As Seattle’s school district found out, it can help a lot.
Keri Blakinger spent nearly two years locked up on narcotics charges before becoming a journalist. “I’ve been so privileged in so many ways to end up with hope and second chances,” she says.
Britain’s prime minister faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday evening. Why do members of her own party want to sack her?
The onetime fixer for Trump has admitted that not only did he commit financial crimes but also that Trump directed him to arrange hush-money payments to two women. Cohen also says he lied to Congress.
The earthquake struck eastern Tennessee before dawn Wednesday. As mild as it was, its effects were felt from eastern Kentucky all the way to Atlanta.
Federal officials at the U.N. climate meeting are ignoring climate science and touting coal and fossil fuels. But local and state authorities pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own.
“I will contest that vote with everything I’ve got,” the U.K. prime minister said outside of No. 10 Downing St. The vote may also decide the fate of her embattled Brexit deal with the European Union.
Chinese state hackers most likely attacked the reservation system at Marriott’s Starwood chain, revealing details of 500 million guests, according to people familiar with the U.S. investigation.
We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.
Some colleges are extending scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. They see benefits to diversity — and their own bottom lines — in having rural students on their campuses.
A small hole in spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has sparked an investigation into its origin. Cosmonauts spent hours on a spacewalk to gather samples in hopes of determining its cause.
Researchers have devised a large clinical study to quickly assess whether one doctor’s apparently effective treatment for deadly sepsis is a fluke or worthy of widespread use.
A report by the Office of the Inspector General revealed Accenture, contracted to help hire 7,500 new agents, is “nowhere near” completing its goals and “risks wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.”
Defense lawyers told the judge their client gave investigators extensive help and gave the country exemplary military service.
A day after the prime minister delayed a critical vote on her Brexit deal, May has hit the road in search of assurances from European leaders — while political turmoil churns back home.
President Trump is threatening a government shutdown if he doesn’t get funding to build his border wall. In a meeting with Democratic leaders, he said, “tremendous amounts of wall have been built.”
Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed the adult film star’s suit over a tweet Trump sent in April suggesting Daniels was lying about being threatened in 2011.
Initial reports indicate a suspect had been known to authorities as a security risk.
The outgoing governor of California spoke about climate change, nuclear proliferation, capitalism and more in a wide-ranging interview with NPR.
A team of researchers had been trying to determine whether the armored cruiser was lost to sabotage, an accident or an attack.
Michael Kovrig reportedly was taken into custody but China has not acknowledged it. Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou faces extradition from Canada to the U.S. to be tried on fraud charges.
A father and son are part of the majority of Americans who don’t hunt and didn’t learn from their parents. So they take a class, and learn a little about hunting and a few things about themselves.
Both sides in Yemen’s conflict are meeting in Sweden for their first face-to-face talks since war broke out in 2015. Yemenis face the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” according to the U.N.
After two days of deliberation, jurors said James Alex Fields Jr. should spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others at the Unite the Right rally last year.
Students with campus jobs at Grinnell College want to unionize, but the college is pushing back and asking the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider an Obama-era ruling allowing such unions.
The fast-food giant, one of the world’s biggest beef buyers, announces plans to use its might to cut back on antibiotics in its global beef supply. Environmentalists are applauding the commitment.
The USNS Comfort spent a week in the Caribbean caring for ailing Venezuelans who couldn’t get treatment in their troubled home country.
