The battle over a 50-acre island in the northeastern reaches of San Francisco Bay is officially over, as the buyer announced ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Left-hander A.J. Minter and the New York Mets finalized a two-year contract on Thursday. Minter can opt out ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register ...

This weekend, a small winter storm may brush through the Sierra Nevada, delivering several inches of cold, light snow.

It’s a commitment to intensity that has served him well, and for the second time in a row, he has brought his characters to ...

A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased this week to just below 7%, its first decline after climbing five ...

More than 118 million children had their schooling interrupted in April alone, UNICEF said, as large parts of the Middle East and Asia, from Gaza in the west to the Philippines in the southeast, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first official trip abroad next week to Central America, ...