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Physician Taison Bell reflects on the messaging around COVID-19 disparities and whether that's impacted how some people are responding to measures to control the virus.

Texas is set to cross a bleak milestone: 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. Texas has the most cases in the U.S. and is struggling with a surge of infections in rural and urban areas.

A whole host of new laws passed by Virginia's Democratic majority shows how much influence the state's GOP has lost after years of dominating that state's policies.

Updated at 1:40 p.m. on 11/4/2020 Unlike some national races, the outcomes of most statewide races in North Carolina are more clear. Still, a few races...

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., sees room for the party to find common ground. And he says progressive Democrats plan to push for "Medicare for All" and a bold climate change plan.

She made her way into the record books last week after becoming the first woman to climb the Golden Gate route of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in a little over 21 hours.

Cora, who as a first-year manager helped lead the Red Sox to a World Series championship in 2018, had been suspended by Major League Baseball for the duration of the shortened 2020 season.

Mary Nichols has been in charge of California's Air Resources Board for the past 13 years.

Former leaders in the Justice Department's civil rights division say the Biden team will have a heavy lift on its hands.

A Japanese café sells plants and green-tea pie. An Italian restaurant caters a prime-rib dinner. A steak-and-fries chain delivers free meals for the elderly. "Fight or flight," one manager says.

More than 3 million people went through TSA airport security checkpoints this weekend. That's the most air travelers in one weekend since March, when the pandemic began.

The U.S. sled team is trying to return from a series of setbacks: The bobsled and skeleton team has had to deal with injuries, doping allegations, sexual harassment troubles, and a loss of sponsorship due to the recession. Still, athletes hope to turn in a good showing in Vancouver next month.

The National Guard has solved its recruiting crisis for rank-and-file soldiers, but reserve units across the U.S. are struggling to find enough clergy to serve as part-time chaplains. The problem reflects an aging clergy and a dire shortage of Roman Catholic priests.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a powerful agency policing predatory or unfair practices. Trump hobbled it. But a court ruling allows Biden to appoint a new sheriff at the bureau.

Kate Brown, Oregon's Democratic governor, discusses why she's ordering new coronavirus restrictions and how she hopes the state can deal with the pandemic without more federal funding assistance.

Health officials have warned Americans to forgo the traditional holiday travel as cases of the coronavirus continue to surge across the country.

President-elect Joe Biden makes plans to address the drastically worsening coronavirus crisis as President Trump focuses on subverting the election results.

The U.S. will officially be out of the Paris climate agreement the day after the presidential election. Where does climate diplomacy stand, and how are other countries reacting?

Pediatricians have been asking policy makers to include children in COVID-19 vaccine trials. Now, the FDA has given Pfizer approval to enroll adolescents as young as 12 years old.

As Russians watch the U.S. election, the Kremlin is not hiding its preference for President Trump to win another term. It believes U.S.-Russian relations could get even worse if Joe Biden wins.