The House Natural Resources Committee demanded answers Tuesday from the Fish and Wildlife Service over its ecogrief training for employees and warned a full investigation could ensue unless the agency cancels the course and uses the money for more important priorities like saving endangered animals.

Democratic lawmakers are pressing the State Department to issue a warning about fentanyl-laced pills sold by Mexican pharmacies to unsuspecting Americans who travel across the border looking for cheaper medication.

Former President Donald Trump used a stop in Iowa to bash Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, characterizing his chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination as an enemy of Iowa ethanol and a threat to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

After the Biden administration agreed to bail out the non-FDIC-insured deposits of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, Wall Street restored its hope that the Federal Reserve would slow down its monetary tightening. Investors — who waited through weeks of Chairman Jerome Powell insisting that the Fed's fight against inflation was far from over before pricing in a 50 basis point hike of the federal funds rate — have quickly returned to the expectation that the central bank will continue to slow down rate hikes to 25 basis points or even halt them entirely.

The country saw the largest increases in the mortality rate in decades among young kids and teenagers in 2020 and 2021, according to a research article released Monday.  Two researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and one from the University of Washington’s pediatrics and epidemiology department and Seattle Children’s Research Institute found...

Another house has collapsed into the ocean in Rodanthe on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Tennessee's lieutenant governor is “pausing” all social media activity after revelations that he repeatedly commented on posts of nearly nude photos of a young gay model and other LGBTQ personalities.

State prisons are at the core of America’s mass incarceration problem.

Southwest Airlines unveiled plans on Tuesday to increase staffing and equipment this winter to avoid another mess of mass cancellations and delays like the one that disrupted holiday travel late last year.  "We understand the root causes that led to the holiday disruption, and we're validating our internal review with the third-party assessment. Now, we...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday night that fighting in Bakhmut and throughout eastern Ukraine remains “very tough.” “It is very tough in the east, very painful,” Zelensky said in his nightly address to the Ukrainian people. “We need to destroy the enemy's military might, and we will. Bilohorivka and Maryinka, Avdiivka and Bakhmut,...