On a blustery morning in Dayton, Ohio, eight firefighters from around the country stand in front of a 20-foot concrete cylinder with the words “BELL TOWER” [...]

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The New York Times sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday over the Pentagon’s new policy that requires media outlets to pledge not to gather information unless [...]

Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada’s High [...]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on the [...]

BOGOTA, Colombia — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the [...]

Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images Two of the nation’s latest food recalls concern cheese — and lots of it. The recalls are distinct, citing different [...]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax [...]

Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that’s recently faced attacks from President Trump. On Tuesday, Trump called Somali [...]

Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate [...]