Overdose deaths are now the leading cause of death among young Americans - killing more in a year than were ever killed annually by HIV, gun violence or car crashes. Preliminary CDC data published by...
"Twin Peaks," David Lynch's noir soap opera about murder in small-town America, returned on Sunday after 26 years away, prompting an outpouring of joy -- and a collective scratching of heads. The...
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to jails, to emergency medical personnel and treatment centers. West Virginia, a...
Thousands of people joined a global March for Science on Saturday with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an "assault on facts" by populist politicians....
Salting of roads in winter helps drivers navigate snow and ice, but the runoff may be irreparably damaging freshwater lakes in the United States and Canada, researchers warned Monday. Most of the 371...
Of the 2,900 babies born last year in Cabell County, West Virginia, 500 had to be weaned off of opioid dependence. In Ohio, counties are renting refrigerated trailers to store the mounting number of...
A Ghanaian, Mark Amo-Boateng, has made it to the semi-finals of the $7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a three-year global competition challenging teams to advance ocean technologies for rapid,...
The White House and U. S. media are already at each other’s throats as President Donald Trump kicks off his term, and experts expect the animosity to last for a while. Trump, who shocked the world...
In his latest Twitter tirade, President-elect Donald Trump has claimed he could have won more votes than his rival Hillary Clinton. "I would have done even better in the election, if that is...
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta on Monday backed Electoral College electors who are asking to receive an intelligence briefing on foreign interventions into the 2016 election ahead...
President-elect Donald Trump stepped up his search on Monday for a new U. S. secretary of state, with the focus on David Petraeus, a former U.S. military commander in Iraq whose mishandling of...
US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally". The Republican, who won the all-important electoral...
From the start, there were things that were under Hillary Clinton’s control, and many, many things that never would be. She was a technocrat facing an America demanding revolution. She was a...
President Barack Obama welcomed President-elect Donald Trump to the White House Thursday, as both men put past antagonisms aside in a time-honored ritual epitomizing the peaceful transfer of...
It was a shocking outcome for many, an uncomfortably close race. As results came in, one state after another turning red, the optimism of Hillary Clinton's supporters soon faded and the realisation...
The highest -- and toughest -- glass ceiling remains unshattered. This year's presidential election ultimately was not kind to Hillary Clinton, the first female presidential nominee for a major...
Donald Trump's election victory proved -- once and for all -- that 2016 was the year that everything the political class thought it knew was wrong. Trump's defeat of Hillary Clinton turned on its...
Republican candidate Donald Trump has taken a commanding lead over Hillary Clinton in the key swing states that will decide the White House election. He won Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina,...
Republican Donald Trump scored a series of shocking wins in battleground U. S. states including Florida and Ohio on Tuesday, opening a path to the White House for the political outsider and rattling...
Much remains to be decided on election night, but this is nothing close to the Hillary Clinton rout that many in politics — and the media — saw as likely on Tuesday. In fact, Donald Trump appears...
