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The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to explore the coast...

Diminishing access to four-year universities and majors has been holding rural students back. Community colleges say they can bridge the gap...

The U.S. went through a prison-building boom decades ago. But today, many prisons are closing down, and that's hit some economies in rural A...

The U.S. Supreme Court says the Trump administration can start carrying out its ban on transgender military service members, at least for no...

We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even...

Hundreds of flight delays and cancellations at Newark's airport over the past several days are giving passengers headaches and spurring prom...

Six months after the election, a federal judge has ordered that a contest for the North Carolina should finally be over, in a case that targ...

On the eve of the conclave to elect a new pope, some of the biggest questions hanging in the air have to do with LGBTQ Catholics. Will the c...

The most detailed plan to reshape the Army began taking shape long before Pete Hegseth's arrival as secretary of defense.(Image credit: Jen...

India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the...

This week 133 cardinals will meet in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to select a new pope who will lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics....

MrDeepFakes said that a critical service provider terminated service, resulting in massive data loss. The site, which featured nonconsensual...

The justices blocked a lower court order that temporarily halted the ban's enforcement.(Image credit: Andrew Harnik)

In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.

The memo weakens President Trump's argument for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants.(Image credit: Salvadoran government hando...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardin...

Entries for our seventh annual contest for fourth grade podcasters, and middle and high school students are now due Sunday, May 25 at midnig...

The strikes are the first on the de-facto capital along the Red Sea. About a quarter of a million refugees have fled to the state where Port...

The Homeland Security Department pitched the monetary incentive as a more "dignified" way to leave the country, while saving taxpayers money...

Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are set to meet today as tensions between their two countries rise. And, the best looks from l...

Critics warn that despite President Trump's call to end the purported weaponization of the Justice Department, it has become more politicize...

Prime Minister Mark Carney won the Canadian election vowing to take on President Trump. Tuesday, they meet for the first time in the Oval Of...

The Posse Comitatus Act restricts using federal troops in civilian law enforcement. Exceptions exist, but Trump's crackdown on immigration i...

The suspension of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission raises questions about future efforts to investigate the country's foreign adoptio...

Germany's parliament is set to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new chancellor on Tuesday.