In Kerr County, Texas, Thad Heartfield is leading nearly 100 volunteers searching for flood victims. For him, this mission is ...

On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their ...

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options ...

The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is developing a framework for assessing drought in a changing ...

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Mental health was the leading cause of death for pregnant and postpartum Missourians in the state’s latest maternal mortality ...

For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security.

Since 1954, a provision in the tax code called the Johnson Amendment says that churches and other non-profit organizations ...

The DOJ has sued the entire federal district court in Maryland over an order that puts a temporary hold on deportations, ...

A new working paper from economists Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova categorizes tribal gaming as a kind of ...

The teams have already had one year to negotiate with Kansas officials. But supporters say the deals are complicated — and ...