In low-income countries, medical interventions like antimalarial drugs or vaccines can lower the mortality rate. But new research suggests there’s another powerful, but simple tool.

The Economist podcast "Scam Inc." tells the story of the global online scam industry, which is growing larger and more sophisticated all the time.

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up ...

Trump, in a social media post, claimed "total victory" after the ruling, which spares him from a potential ...

Conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who founded Focus on the Family and was once called "the nation's most ...

Two Russian cruise missiles hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The strike was part of an overnight barrage of more than 600 drones and missiles.

The world's largest retailer — like many others — has been absorbing most of the increased costs, but raising prices of some ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez will get their first-ever parole hearings on Thursday and Friday, after spending more than three ...

Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens his new memoir, Coming Up Short, with an apology on behalf of the Baby Boom generation for failing to build a more just society.

One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock to wolves every year. A new study finds that those hunts have had a ...

Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two ...