This Fourth of July, it's safe to go in the water. Despite a recent handful of shark attacks and sightings in the Atlantic Ocean, experts say 2019 is shaping up to be an average year…

Migrant children should not be held in detention centers, the incoming president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said Wednesday after touring Customs and Border Protection facilities last week. “Children do not belong in Customs…

Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday to say goodbye to Luis Alvarez, the retired police officer who fought for continued health benefits for 9/11 first responders even as he was dying of cancer. “Before he became…

JUÁREZ, Mexico — Tania Palma says she crossed the Rio Grande once before and isn’t afraid to do it again. Palma, 30, fled Honduras after several family members were killed and crossed from Juárez, Mexico,…

The Dalai Lama apologized Tuesday for repeating remarks that if the next dalai lama were a woman, she should be "attractive." In an interview with the BBC, published June 27, the Dalai Lama was pressed…

The Trump administration will move forward with printing the 2020 census without a controversial citizenship question, a Department of Justice spokesperson said Tuesday. The Supreme Court last week blocked the administration from adding the question,…

WASHINGTON — Government investigators have identified poor conditions in another sector of the southern border, publishing graphic photos showing extreme overcrowding in Rio Grande Valley migrant facilities and finding that children there did not have…

LONDON — It is the little fox that could. Norwegian researchers have said they were stunned to learn that a juvenile fox managed to cross thousands of miles across the Arctic in just a few…