The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal victory over plastic pollution, one of many such research projects.

Nashville hitmaker Dierks Bentley has delivered his 11th studio album, “Broken Branches.” It leans into some well-tread country rock territory, writes The' Ron Harris in ...

Authorities have begun investigating one of India’s worst aviation disasters after an Air India plane crashed a day earlier, killing all but one of the total 242 passengers and crew onboard.

Israel has launched a major attack on Iran, raising fears that the long-running shadow war between the adversaries may spiral into a more dangerous regional conflict. The strikes Friday set ...

Just hours before Israel launched strikes on Iran early Friday, President Donald Trump was still holding onto hope that the long-simmering dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program could be ...

A Tennessee judge is scheduled to hear arguments about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from jail pending the ...

Lawyers in the second murder trial of Karen Read are set to give their closing arguments after weeks of testimony. The highly divisive case has hinged on the prosecution's theory of jaded love ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko is being killed Friday ...

Eight years after Donald Trump was dazzled while watching a grand military parade in Paris, the president is finally getting a chance to try to top the spectacle. His long-delayed dream is expected ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court for 10 convictions on bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud charges. U.S. District Judge John Robert ...

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country's promise — sometimes dotted ...