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The Disney Channel created a coming-out story for a young character in a live-action show for the first time on Friday when an implied crush was made explicit on Andi Mack.

The Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations committee on whether the Authorization for the Use of Military, passed shortly after 9/11, should be amended or repealed. The law is still the basis for U.S. wars and military operations around the globe.

What foods are you scared to attempt in the kitchen? In honor of Halloween, our resident chef tries to exorcise a few common culinary phobias.

Kandi Deitemeyer will officially be inaugurated Friday as Central Piedmont Community College’s president after 10 months on the job.Deitemeyer is only the…

The funk master is back with his first album in six years: World Wide Funk.He talks King Records and his relationship with the late Bernie Worrell in an interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

A computer program learned to identify people thinking about suicide by studying brain activity patterns associated with words like "death" and "trouble."

Reports say the decision was already in the works before allegations surfaced over the weekend that lead actor Kevin Spacey had attempted to seduce a teenage actor in 1986.

A new study shows that CEOs who invest in corporate social responsibility initiatives put themselves at significant risk of losing their jobs.

The parent company of one of the utilities that abandoned a nuclear power project in South Carolina says two of its top executives are retiring. The moves…

What if a dam holding back coal ash burst at one of Duke Energy's coal plants in the Carolinas or Midwest? Newly released maps from Duke show many…

"H is for Hawk: A New Chapter" follows writer Helen Macdonald as she trains a new bird and also observes goshawk chicks in the wild.

The chances that current chair Janet Yellen will remain in her position are slim.

Lead exposure is known as "a silent pediatric epidemic" that many children in Flint, Mich., will struggle with years after the water crisis is resolved, says pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha.

Starting today, the North Carolina Medicaid program will pay for medicines to treat hepatitis C for patients no matter how sick they are. In the past, the…

The U.S. military is sending more soldiers and marines to Afghanistan to work with Afghan forces at small combat outposts. But the State Department is largely staying behind the gates and blast walls of its Embassy in Kabul and not heading out into the field. Officials say it's because of security concerns, but critics say it prevents the U.S. from keeping an eye on how the billions of dollars in aid is being spent and improving governance across the country.

In 1997, someonespeared a pumpkin on the top of a 173-foot tower. It stuck around for months, an object of fascination and speculation. And no one knows who did it ... unless youknow. Wait, do you?

In the 1950s, residents of several Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles were forcibly evicted from their homes, which were then razed to make way for the Major League Baseball team's stadium.

The United States isn't the only country troubled by how to mark leaders of a divisive and racist past. South Africa is also examining what to do with statues to its apartheid-era leaders.

Gordon S. Wood's engaging new dual biography of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams aims to discover why Jefferson is so much more well-loved than his lifelong (though sometimes estranged) friend.

"Lemon" features Rihanna spitting bars over crisp and spare production that wouldn't be out of place on an early Neptunes joint.