Israel bombed the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, saying it targeted the Syrian military headquarters and the area near the presidential palace to protect the Druze religious minority in Syria.

The Senate debates the clawing back of previously approved funding for foreign aid and public media — as Democratic lawmakers object. A final vote in the Senate is expected by Thursday.

The British government hid a billion dollar plan to rescue Afghans who assisted its troops after a data leak compromised exposed them to Taliban retaliation.

Improv comedy classes are part of the training medical residents at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic receive. It's an effort to help doctors learn early how to improve relationships with patients.

A senior State Department official faced tough questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday as he defended sweeping layoffs and the dismantling of the U.S.'s lead foreign aid agency.

President Trump boasted this week that his tariffs are raising "a fortune" for the U.S. government. Tariffs could also raise prices for the back-to-school and Christmas shopping seasons.

An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare ...

It's a slow week on the Billboard charts, but a few albums and singles are still having a huge impact, including Drake's new ...

In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday morning, Trump railed against Democrats, and some of his own supporters, calling the ...

Cool people around the world all have the same effortless “it” factors, according to a new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

This year, college campuses have been at the center for debates over free speech. But students at two small universities in the Midwest are working on a different approach.

Chronic flooding has forced people in southern Illinois to return farmland to the Mississippi’s floodplain, and to reflect on what it means to live with the river. Here & Now ‘s Chris Bentley reports.