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Voters will no longer have the chance to cut Cleveland City Council’s membership and pay in the March 17 primary after the campaign behind the push formally withdrew its petitions Monday. While Issues 3 and 4 will still appear on city ballots, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections won’t count the votes, according to a board spokesman.

The CIA can no longer credibly argue that it can't even confirm it has such records, the court says.

Demonstrators who are arriving in Washington to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump will be following a time-honored tradition that includes suffragists and opponents of the Vietnam war.

Kristen Daniels is an independent 25-year-old considering becoming a Catholic nun. She spoke with Sister Donna Del Santo, who resisted taking her vows at first, but felt at home once she did.

They laughed, they jeered, and no one helped when she had to haul her belonging up a hill in New York. But in Ghana, people are more than eager to lend a hand.

For decades, Sweden has welcomed the world's refugees. But with the arrival of 160,000 migrants, attitudes are starting to change and polarize. "There are two Swedens right now," says a journalist.

Obama said he worries that some Democrats are too worried about ideological "purity" and that social media callouts are not activism.

News that Amazon will build its new headquarters in the suburbs of New York City and Washington, D.C. came as no surprise to political and business…

As part of the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, New York's plan is to buy and demolish hundreds of homes on Staten and Long islands and let nature return as a barrier to future storm surges.

Novelist Robert Stone may not have the name recognition of some of his buzzed-about contemporaries, but his works have won top honors in the writing world. Critic Rosecrans Baldwin thinks Stone's latest, Death of the Black-Haired Girl — full of characters whose evil-doings are "a pleasure to watch" — might give him a shot at mainstream acclaim.