Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses is the target of a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, claiming the changes would "inflict significant…

An ousted top Health and Human Services official testified before Congress Thursday that the Trump administration's timeline for a coronavirus vaccine is likely too optimistic — and said there's currently "no plan" in place for…

Virologist Dr. Joseph Fair, an NBC News contributor who has been hospitalized with coronavirus despite being in good health and taking precautions against getting sick, said Thursday that he believes he contracted the virus through…

For a handful of disinformation researchers, the information crisis that has unfolded around the coronavirus pandemic seemed inevitable. Joan Donovan, Claire Wardle and Kate Starbird have been preparing for this moment for a decade, capturing…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have begun escalating their attacks against former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, the apparent 2020 Democratic nominee, by accusing them and other Obama…

In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s stunning disclosures in 2013 about hitherto secret — and deeply controversial — U.S. surveillance programs, Congress spent the better part of 18 months debating how to reform the Foreign…

Less than two weeks before Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men and fatally shot after purportedly entering a home under construction in Brunswick, Georgia, one of the suspects reported an encounter with a man…

Dozens of demonstrators took to the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing on Thursday for a rain-soaked protest — the third such event in the past month — demanding their "freedom" from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home…