September 26th marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. This year’s event comes amid ever-mounting tensions - with dangerously ambiguous changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, the…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. suicides last year remained at about the highest level in the nation’s history, preliminary data suggests. A little over 49,300 suicide deaths were reported in…

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark.  The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, will turn…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by next…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — They were sharing the world stage to discuss a plan to give young people more input in decisions that shape lives. And 26-year-old Daphne Frias, talking…

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill emancipating enslaved people in Washington, the end of a long struggle. But to ease slaveowners’ pain, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid…

Bob Barnard Family remembers Maryland mom shot, killed in murder-suicide A D.C. family is reeling after a mother of four was shot and killed while nursing one of her twin…

A recent influx of studies has revealed the presence of microplastics in various organs throughout the human body, including the brain and testicles. However, the impact of these minuscule plastic…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For decades a small, landless tribe in Northern California has been on a mission to get land, open a casino and tap into the gaming market…