At the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, little was known about the disease except that contracting it was effectively a death sentence. Before it was known how the disease spread or…

Federal authorities seized 15,000 kilos of cocaine, worth as much as $1 billion, at a Philadelphia shipping port, officials said Tuesday. There were 16.5 tons of the drug found in seven shipping containers late Monday…

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort expressed concern over being transferred to a state lockup in New York, and then the Department of Justice stepped in to keep him in federal custody. Facing state charges…

Federal authorities seized 15,000 kilos of cocaine, worth as much as $750 million, at a Philadelphia shipping port, officials said on Tuesday. The 33,000 pounds or 16.5 tons of the drug was found in seven…

The number of women working as directors, writers, producers and editors on independent films reached all-time highs in the last year, according to new research published Tuesday — but men still outnumber women by two…

Doctors think that climate change may have brought flesh-eating bacteria to previously unaffected waters. In a report published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers say that rising water temperatures in the Delaware Bay…

Hong Kong's leader personally apologized after more than a week of mass protests but stopped short of offering her resignation, one of the protesters' demands. Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, told a news conference…

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, will stay off the presidential campaign trail at least through Wednesday to deal with a fatal officer-involved shooting in his city, his campaign told NBC News. Buttigieg's 2020…