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Christmas specials are often a schlocky tradition on TV. But it doesn't have to be that way. A few surprisingly decent specials will air this holiday season.

In 2016, Nevada flipped the statehouse from red to blue and sent the nation's first Latina senator to D.C. Now, the state could elect its first Democratic governor in 20 years.

The racketeering trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges was cancelled due to illness again Friday, giving jurors a long holiday weekend to mull striking new details revealed this week by players directly involved in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme.

The U.S. wants to mine lithium for electric vehicle batteries to meet climate change goals. But residents near a proposed open-pit mine object.

The company, based in The Hague, is currently in Washington, D.C., performing Giselle at The Kennedy Center. The Ukrainian Ambassador says the ballet corps is like a secret weapon.

The embassy in Washington, D.C., was once a symbol of a new Afghanistan. Now, the few staffers left refuse to serve the Taliban and are racing to help as many refugees as they can.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline got an extraordinary boost in the debt ceiling deal. Court challenges have stalled the controversial natural gas pipeline stretching from West Virginia to North Carolina.

Novelist Chang Rae Lee is known for his sober depictions of things you can probably imagine — like war and spies, family and immigration. So it might surprise you that his newest novel, On Such a Full Sea, is a dystopia that begins in a place called B-mor, a town that — a very long time ago — was known as Baltimore.

The U.S. is no longer rated at the top-notch AAA by Fitch. Here's what credit ratings are, and why they (mostly) matter.

After the Supreme Court barred race-conscious college admissions, there's a growing push in Congress to end preference for applicants tied to alumni and donors.