The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

The Lyrid meteor shower will reach a peak later this month, but stargazers can catch a first glimpse beginning Wednesday ...

All staff were put on leave at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. Congress created the entity in 1987 and ...

Shapiro, a Democrat, is Jewish and has said he supports a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on ...

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House ...

Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health ...

The two-year-old boy had wandered away from home on Monday evening and spent the night alone nearly seven miles from his home ...

With many county public defender offices pushed to the limits throughout Illinois, state lawmakers are moving forward on ...

On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasted the visa revocations as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing attack on ...

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations ...