It took some 36 hours of looking in Humboldt Park’s lagoon, but a Florida alligator specialist finally brought in an animal that had become something of a celebrity in Chicago.
Pyongyang accused the U.S. of “unilaterally reneging on its commitments” and said North Korea is “gradually losing our justification to follow through” on its own promises.
Sepsis, the body’s overreaction to infection, strikes more than a million Americans a year and kills more than 250,000. Evidence suggests that regulations can improve its diagnosis and patient care.
Officer Daniel Pantaleo could still face disciplinary action by the New York Police Department. In 2014, Garner’s dying words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry in national protests.
Lawmakers in the Senate and House are questioning lobbyists and officials from Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple on an array of issues, including whether they’re so big they stifle competition.
The House will vote Tuesday evening on a resolution “condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress.”
When you have a voice like Brittany Howard, just about anybody looks good singing along. But when that person is Terry Crews, it’s all the more sweeter.
The shipping industry is starting to move away from pollutant-intensive heavy fuel oil. Scientists and private companies are betting on a clean replacement technology: hydrogen fuel cells.
The album, Ode to Joy, is a defiantly hopeful collection of songs for dark days.
The town of Harlech in Wales has ousted Dunedin, New Zealand, for the title of world’s steepest street. Residents are elated about the title, which required a lengthy verification process.
The show is centered on the suicide of a teenage girl, and the first season’s finale shows her taking her own life. Several organizations raised concerns that it could romanticize suicide.
Despite the fact that the state has experienced massive population growth in the past decade, officials in Texas have decided not to allocate money or make statewide plans for the upcoming census.
Intersection art makes streets more inviting and can remind motorists to respect crosswalks and bike lanes. But the federal government says the designs can also be distracting.
You know “the Force” that binds all things — the one that can let your mind move objects? The latest Future You video demos an armband that allows users to control objects with thoughts.
The federal government wants to deploy several new tools for catching insurers that have overcharged Medicare $30 billion in last three years alone. But the insurance industry is balking.
The Majestic Yosemite Hotel is back to its original name, The Ahwahnee. And a set of cabins that was temporarily called Half Dome Village now carries its historic name, Camp Curry.
President Trump had been expected to nominate Tomas Philipson as permanent chair of his Council of Economic Advisers. Philipson, an expert on health economics, succeeds Kevin Hassett.
Monday marked three days of demonstrations against Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, after the publication of private conversations containing repugnant slurs against women and homosexuals, among other insults.
When the president told several young congresswomen of color to “go back” to where they came from, he borrowed nativist language about as old as the country itself. Here’s a little history.
Native Hawaiians chained themselves to a grate in a road to stop work on the controversial Mauna Kea project on what they say is sacred land. Development is scheduled to begin this week.
As the world looks back at the Apollo mission, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine looks ahead to the “moon shot” of the modern era: landing a human on Mars.
Snowshoe baseball commentator Jimmy Soyck says you can’t actually run in snowshoes. It’s all in the shuffle.
For decades, Turing’s status as a giant in mathematics was largely unknown, thanks to the secrecy around his computer research and the social taboos about his sexuality.
The Virginia court’s sentence is largely symbolic. Last month, a federal judge sentenced Fields to life in prison for killing a woman protesting a white nationalist rally in 2017.
Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has set a massive goal for itself: going carbon neutral by 2050. This would be good for the world. But how would it be good for the bottom line?
New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum won’t appear on panels pitting TV against movies or books. “Everything is valuable in its own way and they don’t need to be in tension with one another,” she says.
With drug use surging in the past decade and a half, many parents are losing custody of their kids. But is foster care the best solution?
President Trump said that four women who have been critical of his policies “are free to leave” the country. The members of Congress accused Trump of advocating a racist agenda.
The pace of growth in the second quarter was its slowest since 1992. The National Bureau of Statistics attributed the change to a complicated international environment.
Immigrants who want to seek asylum at the U.S. southern border must first apply for refugee status in another country, according to a new rule that is set to take effect Tuesday.
Ghost Fleet, a gripping new documentary about modern-day slaves in the global fishing industry, follows Patima Tungpuchayakul, a Thai woman who’s devoted her life to freeing men from forced labor.
A former Dell worker said she had such a rough time at the company because of her appearance that she filed a human rights complaint. Another former worker alleges bias over her gender transition.
A Honduran couple says a Border Patrol agent told them one parent could stay in the U.S. with their three kids. The agent turned to their youngest and asked her which parent she wanted to be with.
Faith voters who have a mix of liberal and conservative values are up for grabs in the 2020 election. Democrats hope to win them over.
Rumors of mass raids swirled, leading many immigrants to stay inside their homes. Immigrant advocates in several cities took to the streets to demonstrate.
After a nearly five-hour match, the 32-year-old Serbian claimed his fifth Wimbledon title, defending his 2018 win.
