Prospective new pet owners are usually greeted by energetic young puppies with eagerly wagging tails and expectant lolling tongues in pet stores. Although almost every animal is presented as having been sourced from a caring and reputable breeder and to have enjoyed a happy life until that point, in the majority of cases that isnt...

Their Fatal Attraction to Trump has turned them into exactly the thing America doesn't want.

The president-elect announced Thursday that he plans to install in Williams' place his former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, who the U.S. Senate must confirm.

Republicans are split over how aggressive the next Trump administration should be toward Tehran as the president-elect pursues an America-first foreign policy.

ASYLUM SEEKERS: Michele Waslin and Carol Cleaveland discuss their book “Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Survival,” based on eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death threats by intimate partners and gang members. The authors describe […]

President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.

In "It's a Wonderful Life," the town of Bedford Falls succumbs to the ambition and avarice of a cunning old man Mr. Potter who is friendly but carries deep wells of evil.

If Martha Dodd Stern had been a minimally important or competent Soviet spy, her story would make a rip-roaring Hollywood movie. But despite Brendan McNallys effort to inflate the damage she did to American interestsTraitors Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga of Soviet Espionagethe fact remains that her career as a spy was relatively brief and largely unsucc...

Some 1.4 million Americans will be diagnosed with diabetes this year.

As Democrats pick ourselves up off the mat after the elections, there is no time to lose in addressing the fundamental causes that led to the reelection of Donald Trump. It is now clear that, among the many issues that drove swing voters to Trump, the most potent are the affordability crisis facing a majority of Americans and a lack of faith in government to help.

Moderator Michael LaRosa’s latest book, cowritten with a Memphis attorney, will be released the same day.

Activists give their verdicts on the fate of abortion rights in America with conservatives in majority control.

President Biden Announces U.S. has surpassed his goal of providing $11 billion per year in international climate financing President Biden to sign a proclamation designating International Conservation Day; becomes first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon Since Day One of the Biden-Harris Administration, the fight against climate change has been a defining cause of…The post...

The U.S. antitrust watchdogs that pounced on Big Tech and deterred dealmaking throughout corporate America during President Joe Biden’s administration may be tamer and kept on a shorter leash by President-elect Donald Trump after he returns to the Whit...

A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year among an international class representing more than 70 nations, scholarship officials announced.Nearly 3,000 U.S. students began the application process for the scholarship covering all expenses at the storied univers...

A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year among an international class representing more than 70 nations, scholarship officials announced.Nearly 3,000 U.S. students began the application process for the scholarship covering all expenses at the storied univers...

California will remove the derogatory term for a Native American woman in more than 30 locations across the state, according to the state Natural Resources Agency.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born actor who had become one of Americas biggest movie stars of the 1980s and 90s, was sworn in as the 38th governor of California.

Donald Trump's nomination of Marco Rubio for secretary of state may further complicate U.S.-Cuba relations in the years ahead.