Parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks are under mandatory evacuation orders, as the National Hurricane Center warns that ...

Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean on Saturday, rapidly powering up from a tropical ...

A lawsuit challenging construction and operations of an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as ...

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these ...

Gallup, which started tracking Americans' alcohol habits more than 80 years ago, says the drop in drinking rates coincides ...

It's the 40th anniversary of the superstar concert to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia — and of the creation of a U.S.

Counting steps is easy using a phone, a wearable or a fitness tracker. And scientists have lots of data to figure out how ...

Trump announced the Kennedy Center Honorees on Wednesday. They are Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss, George Strait and ...

Need to say a few words of encouragement? The authors of the book Tiny Pep Talks explain how to deliver a message that ...

The White House says people living on the street in Washington, D.C., can avoid jail by going to a shelter. Homeless ...

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug ...

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross ...