It was 250 years ago this week that delegates from 35 North Carolina counties and nine towns convened in Hillsborough for the Third Provincial Congress. Their task was urgent: to ...

A dangerous heat wave has descended on much of California and the U.S. Southwest, with triple-digit temperatures expected ...

I went off on a tangent the other day about the sensitivity of quarterbacks and realized somewhere near the end that I had probably found my column topic for this ...

Texas' Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP ...

The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they've been to winning freedom ...

The team at “South Park” is continuing its comic assault on the Trump administration. The new episode on Comedy Central Wednesday addressed the federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police ...

It felt like a partial victory when Republicans passed two or three “mini-budgets” to keep at least some public services funded, despite the lack of a full state budget. In ...

Israel said Wednesday it would call up 60,000 reservists and extend the service of others for a planned offensive in Gaza ...

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and ...

A gymnast whose report of sexual abuse against her former coach led to his arrest and an FBI investigation into potential ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have killed at least 140 people in eastern Congo in July, according to a rights group. Human Rights ...

A flotilla of hundreds of historic ships is sailing into Amsterdam for a five-day festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s ...