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The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in federal laws over the past 55 years.

A study found that viewing news of a cyberattack lowered voter trust in election integrity - even when the voter's candidate won and even if the attack wasn't on voting systems.

Amid national truth and reconciliation processes, Scandinavian churches are taking stock of their past policies toward the Sámi people.

Fears about supply, demand, profits and supply chains all combine into a volatile mix that delivers prices that are often higher in a crisis, but also change more rapidly and by larger amounts.

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and 'conversos' held in the early modern world.

The ruling limits the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider. It could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.

The risk of harmful algal blooms can be reduced. The biggest drivers of the increase are farm fertilizer and climate change.

The blooms have become an annual problem in the Great Lakes. DNA studies show what's growing there and why it's dangerous.

Risk models can't rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggest new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Risk models can't rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggests new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.