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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

UNITED NATIONS — Gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, Port-au-Prince, leading to a complete breakdown of government authority without additional international support for the beleaguered national ...

Ben Hamlington looks across a ragged pile of ash and debris, the remains of what used to be his family's home. It was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, which spread at ferocious speeds in high winds, ...

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 ...

Just hours after his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited, as one reason, the impact offshore wind ...