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A controversial law seeking to ban a procedure for ending pregnancies after the 15th week faces a lengthy legal challenge.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of descendants of enslaved people owned by members of the tribe in the 19th century. The tribe's attorney general says he does not intend to appeal the decision.

Poor neighborhoods on the northeast side were hit hard by the storm. But residents say they received little help evacuating, and now they are struggling to get basics: food, water and information.

It's a step toward launching the long-promised border wall with Mexico even as funds for the project remain uncertain.

Ocean acidification can cause reckless behavior in coral reef fish. But researchers say that coral reef environments have large chemical variations daily, which can offer recovery time for fish.

State Sen. Burke Harr says Nebraska's state flag flapped upside-down for 10 days at the Capitol earlier this year — and no one even noticed. Now, he's on a crowdsourced quest to redesign it.

"Avoid, avoid, avoid," one fire ant expert says. The ants, common in areas flooded by Harvey, can't be submerged underwater. But if you have a bottle of soapy water, you might be able to drown them.

The State Department declaration requires closures in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., in retaliation for a Kremlin order expelling 755 U.S. diplomatic staff. The deadline is Saturday.

Nearly a decade after the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her family and party got some closure. But fugitive ex-President Pervez Musharraf remains out of reach.

An outside review discovered that 1.4 million more potentially unauthorized accounts were opened between January 2009 and September 2016.