After S&P pays a monumental $1.4 billion settlement, scrutiny falls on its biggest competitor.
Federally run buildings and vehicles are becoming more efficient, thanks largely to a Bush-era energy policy.
The Islamic State group may already have a foothold in the country, right next door to its "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.
The bloc will need to balance its stance against the leader with considerations for his role at the head of an increasingly important regional organization.
The brutal killing of Moaz al-Kaseasbeh has provoked an outpouring of emotion from fellow Jordanians.
Ashton Carter said he was "very much inclined" toward supplying weapons to Ukraine.
King Abdullah II has vowed "relentless war" against ISIS after the extremist group killed a Jordanian pilot. Here's how he might wage it.
In September, the CDC published a "worst-case" estimate that the world could face 1.4 million Ebola cases by January. That didn't pan out.
Twenty-two states and Washington, D.C. have adopted laws that require sex education in public schools.
The long-awaited net neutrality proposal, which the FCC will vote on later this month, will call for utility-like regulation of the Internet.
"Even the Argentinian president knows Chinese people can't differentiate between their R's and L's?" said one Chinese commenter.
Cleaner energy sources are surging in the United States, but high-carbon coal power isn’t on the outs just yet.
“They were very, very close to the building where Muath was," said a source in Raqqa, Syria.
After seven years, Saudi Arabia's ban on blue-collar immigration from Bangladesh is coming to an end.
The efforts to validate the medicinal qualities of marijuana got its latest endorsement on Wednesday morning from a key White House adviser.
The jury selection for the trial of Eddie Ray Routh for the murder of 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle begins Thursday.
A new policy, called portability, could cause districts with large low-income populations to lose an average of $85 per student if their states opt out of the Title I funding procedure.
There have been reports that Pyon In Son, often seen alongside Kim Jong Un, has been executed.
A spokeswoman clarified that the visa ban remained in place, but exemptions could be granted in special circumstances.
Russia is set to take delivery this year of more warplanes than most nations have in their entire inventory.
Nonetheless, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican, claims it's possible "illegal aliens" caused the 2015 measles outbreak.
After ISIS' brutal killing of pilot Moaz al-Kaseasbeh, Jordan has vowed an "earth-shaking" response.
The assistant chief of the Ferguson police began researching alternatives to lethal force one month after Michael Brown's death.
Violence has escalated in Nigeria in the weeks ahead of the country's presidential election Feb. 14.
Videos of the TransAsia Flight 235 crash show the plane clipping a taxi on an overpass before plunging into the river below.
Legislators in North Dakota -- the nation's fastest-growing state -- are aiming to create employment protections for gay workers.
Only 35 percent of those polled say it should be kept in place, while 60 percent say they want it removed.
The head of Unesco vetoed the inclusion of the collection, arguing that some of the works fueled anti-Semitism.
Security sources said Boko Haram burnt a mosque and killed several civilians in towns bordering with Cameroon, AFP reported.
The execution of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh by ISIS militants has been denounced by nations across the Middle East.