Philip Bump uses Connecticut landmarks and visual comparisons to show just how vast billionaire wealth has become.

Democrats have filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a redistricting rule by Virginia’s top ...

The Alabama attorney general has announced a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s fundraising practices ...

A man in Michigan who got married and then ran over his best friend that same day has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. James Shirah fatally struck his friend following an ...

By comparison, the analysis shows that voters’ race is a more reliable predictor than their party of how they will vote in the next election. Consequently, it seems that, at least in Southern states, ...

STRATFORD — Life-threatening injuries were reported in a multicar crash on Route 15 south that has closed down the area, police said. The area of Exit 34 was closed to motorists as an investigation ...

The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a time when America did not even ...

The Foley family from Green Bay, Wisconsin, exemplifies the type of tourists South Dakota hopes to attract for a successful ...

The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development. It's part ...

Armed vessels linked to the Libyan coast guard opened fire on a humanitarian rescue ship Monday after it rescued about 90 ...

Youngstown State University is opening a new campus this fall as discussions about shrinking Ohio’s public universities intensify. The new campus is on the former site of Eastern Gateway ...