The White House says people living on the street in Washington, D.C., can avoid jail by going to a shelter. Homeless ...

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The Chelmsford, Mass., court has hemorrhaged judges, a consequence of the Trump administration's seemingly contradictory efforts to downsize the federal government and increase immigration arrests.

Latino voters helped deliver the White House to President Trump in the last election but many of them already say they won't vote for Republicans next year, but they aren't yet turning to Democrats.

Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

The TV prequel to the Alien movies calls back to the best elements of those original films — including questions about ...

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Hiller spent years scraping by in Hollywood by taking on various small roles. Then he landed the role of Joel on Somebody ...

The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to strengthen over the next several days and says it could become a hurricane ...

Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now presidents Trump and Putin ...

A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV ...