Many U.S. schools have poor air circulation, which will exacerbate the coronavirus threat when some of them reopen this month

Puerto Ricans are demanding answers after botched primaries forced officials to reschedule voting at centers lacking ballots, an unprecedented decision being called a blow to the U.S. territory’s democracy

A plan from President Donald Trump to extend additional unemployment benefits requires states to provide 25 percent of the funds, and it's unclear whether states have the money or the will to do it

Officials say an earthquake has shaken much of North Carolina, rattling homes, buildings and residents

With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. reaching 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe

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Protests in Portland, Oregon, have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of Black residents themselves

Advocates have made strides in getting Native American symbols and names changed in sports, but they say more work needs to be done mainly at the high school level

U.S. colleges are asking returning students to promise to help contain the coronavirus

A fire inside a police union building led authorities in Portland, Oregon, to declare a riot late Saturday in the city that had hoped for calm after federal agents withdrew more than a week ago

Doctors, hospitals and medical students are ramping up efforts to register voters as part of a nationwide campaign this month

More protests are expected in Portland, Oregon, throughout the weekend following violent demonstrations this week as unrest in the Northwest city continues

A Texas state senator was chosen as the GOP nominee for John Ratcliffe’s former seat in Congress that he vacated to become President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence

Crews have recovered the body of one of two construction workers that became trapped nearly 10 months ago in the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans

There are few visible signs of the coronavirus pandemic that's changing the world at the massive annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota

Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and production workers have reached a tentative agreement aimed at ending a strike that stretched for more than a month during a global pandemic

Reopening schools will be easy

The fourth COVID-19 test result for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine came back negative Saturday after the governor received conflicting positive and negative results ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Trump on Thursday

The Census Bureau has another challenge as widespread door-knocking for the 2020 survey begins next week

A new push from the federal government will allow Alaska Natives who are veterans of the Vietnam War to apply for 160 acres of federal land in Alaska