A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s sweeping layoffs across the Education Department, saying it amounts to an illegal dismantling of an agency created by ...

The Studentaid.gov website was down for hours on Wednesday after the Education Department laid off half its workforce.

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase. The ...

A Florida police officer delivered a pizza for a woman after an alligator spooked the delivery driver from her customer’s front door.

“It is accurate that Canada imposes a tariff of approximately 250% on U.S. exports of certain dairy products into Canada, and ...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to announce that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts on Thursday accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the ...

The administration says it’s a step toward closing the department completely. Education Department officials this week ...

They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the first ...

Russia news agencies reported that Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Thursday for high-level talks aimed at ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ...

The southern Italian city of Naples was struck by a 4.4-magnitude quake early Thursday that caused only minor damage and sent ...

An explosion inside a maintenance hole on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock set off fires and power outages, leading school officials to issue evacuation orders for ...