With McCormick's victory, Republicans have expanded their Senate majority in the next Congress to 53 seats, with two races ...

The ancient scourge of tuberculosis for years was the deadliest infectious disease. Then SARS-CoV-2 came along and grabbed ...

ASHEVILLE—Nearly six weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Western North Carolina, people in and around Asheville are ...

Control of the House is still too close to call, according to the Associated Press. Here's a running list of races that are ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, saying he is ready to engage with ...

In 2021, Tanden was nominated to lead the Office of Management and Budget, but she withdrew her nomination after coming under ...

On Wednesday morning, following the U.S. election, Elon Musk posted what appeared to be an AI-generated image of himself on X ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point. How much further rates fall could depend on how ...

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

With a race that was expected to be historically tight behind us, the question is: How did Trump win so decisively?

President Biden said Thursday that the American people deserve “a peaceful and orderly” transition and urged Americans “no ...

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading ...