NEW YORK — Leap year. It's a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why?
Have a look at some of the numbers, history and lore behin...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5%, and restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war, as the servic...
PORTLAND, Maine — The organizers of the longest sled dog race in the eastern United States said Monday they are canceling the event due to a lack of snow on the ground.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia would join 45 other states that allow religious exemptions from childhood vaccines required for school attendance under a bill that pa...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama judge remained hospitalized after he was shot over the weekend, and his son has been taken into custody, authorities said Monday.
Montgomery...
NEW YORK — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will leave her post on March 8, having been forced out of the GOP’s national leadership as Donald Trump mov...
WASHINGTON — An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “wi...
TROY, Mich. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says it's not “the end of our story” despite Donald Trump's easy primary victory in South Carolina, her hom...
The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was much less noisy, smelly...
NEW YORK — Tributes poured in Saturday for Flaco, the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl that became a feel-good New York story after escaping its Central Park Zoo enclosure and ...
