The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering insurgencies’ underlying causes, instead ...

You’ve heard of twofers. Kenya Hutton is a “threefer.” His parents are immigrants, he’s a Black man and he’s gay — at a ...

One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away ...

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State legislative sessions around the country are coming to a close, and fights over public versus charter school funding and cell phones were among the biggest policy battles this year.

In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May. Businesses ...

Religious services, concerts and vigils are set to mark Sunday’s fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer even as police reform and civil rights activists face ...

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the ...

The American University of Baghdad celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of students Saturday at a campus that was ...

The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental ...

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment ...

Voters in Venezuela are choosing lawmakers, governors and other officials Sunday in polling being held against a backdrop of heightened government repression and ...