On Nov. 4, you may be asked to consider candidates who want to be in charge of prosecuting crimes and leading law enforcement in your community.

In Somerville, Massachusetts just outside of Boston, everyone has a horror story about the rats. Adeline Lining says they ...

A student is considered chronically absent when they miss at least 10% of a school year. In most states, that means missing about 18 days a year, regardless of whether the absences were excused.

The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Toronto for the second time in a week, as the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers held off the ...

Relations between the two neighbors hit a low point this month, with fighting killing people on both sides of the border. At ...

Western states have some of America's lowest fertility rates. The rapidly rising cost of housing is playing a role.

Judge Indira Talwani acknowledged this will leave millions of people without assistance starting Saturday. Two dozen ...

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund ...

Some 42 million people in the U.S. who rely on SNAP benefits could soon join the already long lines at the nation's food ...