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Author Ben H. Winters' best-selling 2016 novel "Underground Airlines" is set in present day, but in an America where Abraham Lincoln never took office and slavery is legal in four states.

The proposal says $1.5 trillion in spending is needed but allocates $200 billion over 10 years, with most of the rest of the funding burden shifted onto states and local governments.

Photographer Hiram Maristany has spent more than 50 years documenting the Puerto Rican community in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood — through poverty, beauty and gentrification.

A sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tenn., would end up being King's last cause. As the nation marks 50 years since the civil rights leader was assassinated, we look back at King's final speech.

European tourists on the island of Lesvos are doing more than just lounging on the shimmering Aegean this summer. Some join islanders in assisting the many migrants who are camping in the open.

That $2,300 rug with a faded floral pattern at West Elm? The $50 picture frame made of bone at Bloomingdale's? Both handcrafted by artisans in India.

President Trump is starting to give signs of how he will run for re-election, attempting to invert the attack on him as an extremist by painting Democrats as "radical" and socialist.

Johnny Depp had sued Amber Heard for more than $50 million over a 2018 op-ed she wrote about abuse against women. Because of a limit set by state law, Depp's award will be $10.35 million.

The recent deep freeze across much of the U.S. has created one of the best opportunities in decades to sail ice boats across frozen bays and rivers — including the Chesapeake Bay.

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz chronicle America's poisonous relationship with lead in Lead Wars. "We've created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways," Rosner says.