The Smithsonian Institution introduced a multimillion-dollar programme using high-resolution three-dimensional scanning to make historical documents, cultural objects and scient...

Major League Baseball entered the final month of the regular season with close divisional and wild-card races across both leagues as television audiences and stadium attendance ...

Federal land managers closed several recreation areas and campgrounds in California and Oregon as drought, low humidity and strong winds increased the threat of wildfire ignition.

Meteorological and public-health agencies issued air-quality advisories after upper-level winds carried particulate smoke from agricultural fires in Indonesian Borneo across the...

National Center for Education Statistics data showed a modest year-on-year decline in undergraduate enrolment amid demographic changes and rising interest in vocational and tech...

S&P Global Mobility registration data showed battery-electric vehicles accounting for about 12% of US light-duty vehicle purchases as slower adoption prompts automakers to recon...

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after jurors split 11-1 over whether Lindsay Clancy’s severe postpartum psychosis affected her ability to...

A congressional oversight committee received an inspector general report alleging misuse of travel funds, administrative misconduct and alcohol consumption while on duty by a fo...

Federal Election Commission filings show candidates and political action committees in closely contested House and Senate races have raised hundreds of millions of dollars as ca...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries proposed measures focused on housing, prescription-drug and grocery costs while promising investigations of executive agencies if Democrats...

The US Justice Department filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the Kansas City, Kansas, school district challenging policies that allow students to use preferred names, genders ...

Federal health authorities issued clinical guidance to hospitals in parts of the Midwest and South as flooding and overwhelmed stormwater systems raised the risk of leptospirosi...