PULWAMA, India — Men and women filed into gender-segregated lines, huddling in shawls early Wednesday morning in this Himalayan territory. Many prepared to do something that they’d never done before: ...

UMass Amherst researchers will soon start tracking sleep patterns among people already at risk of Alzheimer's as a way to flag early signs of the disease. UMass biomedical engineer Joyita Dutta, lead ...

On a Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Yu Miao was busy preparing the first floor of his bookstore for a public lecture — an event that would be illegal in ...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is not endorsing a candidate for president, in a move that breaks with decades of Teamsters precedent and sets them apart from other major labor unions.

Vermont’s largest taxidermy collection needs a new home. The owners of the more than 600 stuffed birds and animals lost the lease on the building where the specimens have been on display in Marlboro, ...

The Federal Reserve moved aggressively Wednesday to start cutting interest rates, as its single-minded focus on fighting inflation gives way to a growing interest in protecting the job market. The ...

“Hi Helen!” sing out a dozen Helen Ropers gathered at a bar called Sidetracks in Ypsilanti, Mich. They are mostly Gen X women, resplendent in colorful caftans, red curly wigs and clunky 1970s-style ...

The Department of Justice is suing the owner and operator of the container ship Dali, saying negligence and dangerous cost-cutting decisions led to the ship ramming into — and destroying — Baltimore’s ...

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case. A new indictment charged the jailed ex-movie mogul ...

America's relationship with work has been tenuous lately. Remember the wave of quiet quitting in 2022? In surveys over the past couple of years, Gallup researchers have found only about a third of U.S ...

For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. "This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On ...

A baby pygmy hippopotamus in a Thailand zoo has quickly become a worldwide internet sensation after the zoo began posting videos of her. But zoo officials say the increased attention has led to bad ...