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The reduction of harmful ground-level ozone across most of the U.S. over the past several decades has been an air pollution success story. But in some parts of the country …

There were no more of the heated arguments or dueling court filings of the past few months, no more tearful testimony or angry accusations.

Like Hercules and his 12 labors, Democrats’ $1.85 trillion package of social and climate initiatives seems afflicted by a maddening parade of hurdles.

When the UNLV women’s basketball team runs sprints during practice, she usually finishes first. Hates to get beat, actually. And during games, when there is a loose ball or contested rebound, she takes pride in being the first …

The extent to which Biden’s $1.85 trillion bill exacerbates inflation largely depends on how much it stimulates the economy and whether Americans will …

Even without the benefit of a second earner, single mothers — those who have never married — have made up a growing share of homebuyers over the past three decades …

The Japanese government’s preparations for the next virus surge include adding thousands more hospital beds to avoid a situation like last summer when COVID-19 patients were forced to stay home, even while dependent on oxygen deliveries.

A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies died Thursday evening at a Florida aquarium despite life-saving efforts to treat a gastrointestinal abnormality, aquarium officials said.

A Missouri man who admitted to burying his wife’s body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder.

Ricky Wright points to the bank of a creek to show one way his hometown has been affected by climate change. Many banks have eroded or collapsed, and now some favorite fishing spots that were once on solid ground are reachable only by boat.