George Clooney is the ultimate optimist when it comes to the future of the United States.Clooney and Broadway legend ...

Women in the United States are less likely to have babies than ever before, but key figures in the Trump administration seem keen on changing that – even as federal programs focused on reproductive ...

Why has President Donald Trump given Russia and China an opportunity for what could be unintended strategic and economic ...

A picture of Dr. David Walt, a pioneering scientist whose research helped significantly lower the costs of DNA sequencing, greets visitors to Harvard University’s website right next to a large ...

The Florida House has approved a bill to lower the age of gun purchases, and the Senate has advanced a proposal to create ...

As the ocean liner SS United States is being prepared for its final voyage, from Alabama to a site off Florida, we look back ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio rolled out the first stage of a major plan to reorganize the US State Department on Tuesday ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others — on Earth Day. The employees were tasked with ensuring that federal policies, grants and initiatives ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, ...

Secretary lays out plans to cut positions and shrink what he called ‘bloated’ bureaucracy.

Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ...