New research uses extreme heat, drought, inland and coastal flooding and wildfires to rank the safety of US states.

Nearly 20 years in the making, the reform initiative seeks to change the way Electoral College votes are counted.

Hurricane Milton is forecast to make landfall near Tampa Bay in the next 24 hours as a major hurricane, then move across the ...

The agency now tests sewage to keep tabs on the virus. See how the process works and how viral activity in your state ...

Wilson told Newsweek that the vastness of the U.S. can influence this, with serial killers like Ted Bundy travelling across ...

Despite overall reductions in COVID-19 cases across the country, very high levels are still being detected in some states.

While some states have seen significant reductions in population growth, others are seeing their populations boom.

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most ...

New York and California, routinely overlooked in presidential elections, are shaping up as potentially pivotal battlegrounds ...

But Colorado, not California or New York, is home to the most cocaine users in the United States, figures suggest. More than three percent of Colorado residents aged 18 and older - about 96,000 ...

The North Dakota Forest Service logged 33 reported fires over the weekend encompassing 77 square miles. That figure does not ...

East Coast and Gulf Coast ports began reopening after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the ...