Stygian” means having the characteristics of death, but the word kept a lawmaker alive in a spelling competition Wednesday night.

Seattle catcher Mitch Garver was removed from the game at Minnesota after a foul ball hit his mask in the fifth inning. That ...

The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has designated UC Irvine as a “hostile campus” for Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students and faculty for what it describes as ...

Philadelphia’s public schools are facing federal criminal allegations of failing to properly inspect eight schools for ...

A few Republicans are reacting with indignation after the Senate parliamentarian advised that some of the measures in their tax and immigration bill could not be included in the legislation.

Officials say a Canadian man being held by immigration officials in South Florida has died in federal custody. U.S.

Water quality scientists predict the harmful algae bloom on western Lake Erie this year will be relatively mild and less severe than last year.

A San Francisco bookstore has announced it will no longer carry “Harry Potter” following author J.K. Rowling saying she’ll dedicate her private wealth to developing an anti-trans organization.

Brian Wilson's cause of death has come to light, two weeks after the musician best known for shaping the sound of the Beach Boys died at age ...