Oklahoma's governor on Tuesday appointed energy executive Alan Armstrong to serve in the U.S. Senate through the end of the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 2.7 earthquake hit Western North Carolina Monday evening near the Macon ...

Within a given year, is there any advantage to taking your required minimum distributions as soon as you can, or taking it ...

Long before he became Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf went on a charm offensive for almost two decades, ...

NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick went 4-8 in his first season with UNC. The Tar Heels have a new offensive coordinator and ...

A Thai court on Tuesday ruled that the operator of a major gold mine in northern Thailand is responsible for environmental damage and health impacts on nearby villagers, in a long-awaited verdict that ...

China says it has protested to Japan over an alleged break-in at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. An individual who claimed to ...

The Kenyan government said Tuesday that two rivers have burst their banks, flooding farms and displacing families as the ...

Temperatures have shattered monthly records in many major cities in the Western U.S. Is that a sign of things to come here at ...

A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic. The negative shift may seem ...

Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to refloat a humpback whale stranded in shallow water in the Baltic Sea.

Damage-causing earthquakes are very rare in North Carolina; however, the state has faced a handful of memorable and powerful ...