President Trump is capping off his first week in office with a trip to Asheville, N.C., today and then Los Angeles. Both communities were ravaged by disasters and are grappling with recovery efforts.

A yearslong U.S. Justice Department investigation of a global hacking campaign that targeted prominent American climate activists took a turn in a London court this week amid an allegation that the ...

The stability of the federal government's system for producing statistics, which the U.S. relies on to understand its population and economy, is under threat because of budget concerns, officials and ...

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription ...

Cannabis varieties for sale at the Sweetspot dispensary in Essex Junction on Oct. 18, 2024. Early next week, a Vermont judge will consider a legal motion that could have a tremendous impact on the ...

President Trump has signed an executive order calling for the release of documents surrounding the 1960s assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

President Trump came into the White House overturning dozens of actions taken by his predecessor. But he found at least one last-minute Joe Biden measure that he actually wants to keep: an executive ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire, and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

As the debate continues about what billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk intended when he made straight-arm gestures at an inauguration event, Musk posted a series of Nazi-themed puns on Thursday to his ...

Em Russo, the Trans Program manager and SafeSpace advocate at the Pride Center of Vermont, sits for a portrait inside the Pride Center’s library in Burlington on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Vermont’s Attorney ...

A new performance project in Texas wants to challenge the dire image of the Southern border as a no-man's-land of destitute migrants, razor wire, and men with guns. Postcards from the Border is a new ...