Even using low paid prisoners as firefighters, the U.S. government is running out of money budgeted to fight northwest wildfires.
Young people are more likely than other demographic groups to support the Palestinians and blame Israel for the conflict.
Some doctors are suggesting experimental vaccines aren't being distributed widely enough because the patients happen to be African.
Residents and officials are shutting down illegal marijuana farms that they say are draining the state's stressed water supplies.
The Netherlands prime minister has temporarily suspended search efforts at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine forces escalated.
The world’s richest 1 percent owns more wealth than economists previously thought, depriving countries of billions in tax revenue.
Yanukovych fled and the Euromaidan government is now in power, so why are people still protesting?
The Ebola virus drug used to treat two Americans is being funded by the same U.S. government program that brought you the Internet.
Russians are mourning their favorite imported food products after Russia announced a ban on food and agricultural imports from the EU and U.S.
TEPCO, the Fukushima power plant operator, is currently pumping untainted groundwater into the ocean to prevent it from mixing with toxic water.
China said it will restrict the use of messaging apps in the interest of national security and to clean up the Internet.
Thursday's strike was the second unsuccessful attempt to blow up the pro-Russia separatists' headquarters in Donetsk.
Many northern Iraqi towns, home to the country's minorities, have fallen to ISIS, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Russia said on Wednesday it would ban all food imports from the United States, and all fruit and vegetables from Europe.
The teenagers’ kidnapping, murder and the discovery of their bodies triggered Israel’s decision to attack Hamas in Gaza last month.
After a month of bitter fighting, the two sides are not meeting face to face.
The overburdened United Nations mission in South Sudan is now the organization's biggest aid operation in any single country.
Tension has been high between Asia's two largest economies in recent months.
Seoul had sent a clemency plea last month after China told South Korea about its decision of executing the two dealers.
Nuon Chea was the ideological motivator of the regime while Khieu Samphan was its public face.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian president, declared a state of emergency for at least 90 days, to ensure “the very survival of our state."
However, the Modi government's efforts to push through such reforms and open up the economy have faced early resistance.
The Department of Homeland Secuirty suffered a security breach after the company they use for background checks was apparently hacked.
China could take a strong-hand position on religious activities, but Sunday’s quake shows spirituality in the wake of tragedy.
A 72-hour Gaza truce held through its second day on Wednesday and Israel said it was ready to extend the deal as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that devastated the Hamas-ruled enclave.
President Barack Obama will travel to a military facility outside Washington on Thursday to sign a $16.3 billion plan to ease health care delays at Veterans Affairs facilities as he seeks to restore confidence in an agency tarnished by the problem.
Options for leaving Libya by sea and air are limited. Thousands of Filipinos say they fear joblessness more than war.
Campbell's Soup addressed a brewing controversy Wednesday, stating that the company uses no meat or animal-derived ingredients in its V8 or tomato soup products.
Pharmaceutical companies are among the biggest supporters of lobby groups that challenge marijuana law reform.
Lebanon's army surrounded a border town occupied by Islamist militants as mediators reported progress in negotiations to end to the most serious spillover of Syria's civil war yet onto Lebanese soil.