A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan of ly...

Omo Forest Reserve, a tropical rainforest in southern Nigeria, faces threats from excessive logging, uncontrolled farmin...

While technology experts sound the alarm on the pace of artificial intelligence development, philanthropists — including...

Pope Francis is challenging university students to make the world a more just and inclusive place

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The IRS says it is ending its decades-old policy of making unannounced home and business visits — in a an effort to keep...

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U.S. officials have approved a new long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against a respiratory virus that caus...

Off the Northeast U.S. coast, signs of the nascent wind industry are all around

A senior defense official says the U.S. is beefing up its use of fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to p...