It was a gesture born of suffering and kindness carried over generations. In 1847, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma sent $170 to Ireland during the Great Famine — a time of mass starvation on the…

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has promised that if elected president, he'd put the first black woman on the Supreme Court. To make good on that pledge, he’d have to look in some atypical places. Supreme…

LONDON — The United Kingdom risks repeating the same tragic mistakes “again and again” as its coronavirus death toll continues to spiral, public health experts have warned. Senior experts in the U.K. have told NBC…

Global pandemic. Those two words set my whole family in a frenzy. As the world’s borders shut down, my biggest fear wasn’t for my own health: it was for the life of my 66-year-old mami,…

In mid-March, as the Seattle region grappled with a coronavirus outbreak, a community health center caring for the area's Native American population made a pressing request to county, state and federal health agencies: Please send…

A federal judge ordered Tuesday that New York state hold its canceled Democratic primary in June, which places Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other former 2020 candidates back on the ballot. U.S. District Judge Analisa…

Just before 1 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump fired off a four-tweet broadside at The Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans, conservatives and independents dedicated to his electoral defeat in November,…

Amid Nicolas Cage's self-proclaimed quest to make at least 150 movies in his career, Variety announced May 4 that Cage landed what will surely become another defining role in it: that of the Tiger King.…