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Student Scholarship Winner Calls Out CBS at News Emmys: 'The Recent Direction of the Outlet Stains the Legacy of Mike Wallace'

A robot being developed at Duke University is almost ready to face the world, in any direction.

Blocking someone from entering a house of worship, or acting in a way that makes worshippers entering the building fear for their safety, is now a crime in New York under a law approved after a series of raucous demonstrations outside synagogues.

Planned Parenthood has begun prescribing abortion pills to women before they get pregnant, defying the Food and Drug Administration's safety protocol and heightening concerns about the drugs being used by bad actors to induce non-consensual abortions ...

A South Carolina jury heard opening statements Wednesday in the trial of a store owner charged with murder in the 2023 fatal shooting of a Black 14-year-old, which a prosecutor called unprovoked and a defense lawyer insisted was an act of defense.

Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living.

Fair housing organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday over a federal rule change that they say would reverse decades of lending protections and open the door to discrimination against Black people, Latinos and other minorities.

A former truck and bus driver charged in an assassination plot against an Iranian American writer who authorities said was targeted for death by the Iranian government was given a 10-year prison sentence on Wednesday by a federal judge.

Thune's endorsement brings Senate leadership one step closer to coalescing around a Republican they spent months trying to defeat.