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Accidental deaths, which include overdoses, have become the third-leading killer for Americans for the first time in more than a century, according to the National Safety Council.

Lawmakers didn't have a very productive year, but they did manage to pass 27 pieces of legislation. Here's what the laws accomplish.

Across the country, public universities are struggling with abysmal graduation rates. Here's one campus — San Jose State University — that's trying to do something about it.

Across the U.S., COVID-19 has applied fresh pressure to an already overburdened child welfare system.The pandemic has closed courts, sidelined caseworkers…

The NBA Finals get under way Thursday night, and there's a familiar team playing for the title: The Golden State Warriors. But for the Toronto Raptors, it's their first trip to the finals.

Army Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters that distribution of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech has begun, with shipment to 636 sites scheduled to begin on Monday.

The post-Thanksgiving travel rush has ended, but the winter storm continues to bear down in the New England region, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and delays.

The group of women and girls say the bureau failed to properly follow up on credible claims against the sports doctor Larry Nassar in 2015, which allowed him to continue abusing victims.

And more than 1 in 3 adults in households with children say they have experienced serious problems meeting both their work and family responsibilities, according to an NPR poll.

Homelessness fell overall, despite large increases in cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle, according to a new HUD report. There were declines among veterans, families and the chronically homeless.