Artisanal miners' is the phrase used for South Africans who salvage coal from abandoned mines. It's a grueling and risky life. "Bit by bit it's killing something inside me," says one such miner.

A judge ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties ...

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell signaled a possible interest rate cut in the months to come, sending stocks sharply ...

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Joe Gruters, a Trump-backed Florida state senator, was elected on Friday to serve as the Republican Party's new chairman.

In a new album, the youngest ever Van Cliburn winner puts his own stamp on Tchaikovsky's undervalued set of piano pieces ...

August 5, 2025 • Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years ...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an ...

Small-town life is upended when 17 schoolchildren suddenly vanish without explanation in the middle of the night. Weapons is a spooky thriller that invites deeper interpretation.

The author of the YA novel Holes and the Wayside School series has written his first novel for adults. It's a fairy tale ...

Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two ...

One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock ...