Residents of Philadelphia and some surrounding counties are cleaning up and assessing damage after a series of severe storms called microbursts swept through with winds up to 60 or 70 miles per hour.

A huge fire that engulfed a pub in Bangkok early on Monday morning killed at least 27 people, officials said. Rescuers said the fire was reported around midnight. Footage shared online by first ...

Lindsey Graham was the garrulous son of South Carolina pool hall owners and he rose to become a prominent senator and fixture ...

Mariners pitcher Emerson Hancock exited Sunday's start against the Rays after trying to barehand a hard one-hopper hit back ...

A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a civil ...

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The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Disney's live-action “Moana” may be the top movie at the box office, but it didn't make a big splash in its first weekend.

Syria's newly elected parliament has held its first session since the ouster of former President Bashar Assad.

A failed Senate bid after a rape allegation renewed attention to a movement built by Sen. Sanders that some say is too ...

Diaz, a first generation American serving as an appeals court judge, has shown he has a measured temperament needed on the ...

When we allow an emergency to be the catalyst, we treat senior living as a clinical intervention. But at its best, it is a ...