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New research shows how official figures understate the U.S. pandemic: On any given day the number of infected people who are actively contagious is ten times that day's tally of new reported cases.

After the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, the surviving staff resolve to rebuild their paper.

A new study shows more than half of young people say climate change makes them feel afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless and helpless. And government inaction in particular makes them worried.

Most of Beverly Pickering's dog walking and pet sitting business relies on people traveling. People aren't doing that much these days.

Home health aides work for low wages, but they're critical for elderly and disabled people. A proposal to inject billions of dollars in federal funding may be an opportunity for sweeping change.

Winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, and it fell at exactly 4:20 a.m. ET on Saturday in the Northern Hemisphere. Here are five ways it's celebrated around the world.

A recreational boat crashed into a ferry transporting 45 people on the final day of a sand-sculpting festival in Florida, killing one person and injuring at least 10 others, officials said.

Iranian authorities are cracking down on mourners as they try to memorialize their loved ones who were killed in last month's protests.

Want to see the most vibrant wildflowers in SoCal? Find out where to go via a weekly hotline that has been providing wildflower reports for over 40 years, voiced by actor Joe Spano.

Iconic journalist Studs Terkel was creating a best-seller, when he interviewed people around the U.S. for his book Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.