The Academy Awards officially adopted the "Oscars" nickname in 1939. But who is Oscar, and who started calling them that? We ...

In a new study, bats lap up vaccine-laced saline or chow down on vaccine-carrying mosquitoes. Will that have any impact on ...

A class-action lawsuit has been filed after part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed in January, sending raw sewage into the Potomac River. After weather delays, repair work has resumed.

Latinos helped Texas Democrats set the new record for a primary, but the state has been a white whale for the party for ...

The U.S. Central Command confirmed that at least four of six crew members on the KC-135 aircraft were dead, after the refueling plane went down in western Iraq on Thursday.

A year ago, eggs were scarce and prices were sky-high. But avian flu took a much smaller toll on America's egg-laying chickens this winter than last, and egg prices have tumbled 42%.

When Medicaid began sharing personal data with federal immigration authorities last year, it upended decades of explicit ...

The announcement was made just hours before Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is scheduled to speak early Friday "to address ...

At the Winter Paralympics, athletes with prosthetics often modify them to fit their bodies more precisely. That has led to some competitors starting their own businesses to help fellow amputees.

A record 280 political parties had registered by Thursday's deadline to participate in Haiti's first general election in a decade, hopeful for a chance to help ease their country's multiple crises.

A six-day launch window opens on April 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lunar orbital mission would be the ...

The war with Iran is in its second week. The fighting continues, while questions linger about why the U.S. began military operations and how it will affect Nevada and the rest of the country.