The annual contest for students in grades four through 12 is back for its eighth year — this time with a special prize for a ...

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the ...

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel ...

America's urban search and rescue teams are facing financial and political pressure. But their work has never been more in-demand, as weather disasters get more common.

One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the cost of computers. But experts say that this may be reaching a limit.

Decorated Army Veteran Charles Norman Shay, who at 19 saved lives at Omaha Beach on D-Day, has died. A citizen of the ...

In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.

Safiya Khalid, who served as the first Somali-American on the Lewiston city council, said in a social media post that she was ...

A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have ...

Students and supporters marched through downtown Wednesday, calling for stronger protections for immigrant students.

The "First World" consisted of the U.S., Western Europe and their allies. The "Second World" was the so-called communist bloc ...

Gov. Janet Mills and U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree have accused the Trump administration of targeting hungry people as it ...