Associated Press

Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal.

Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday.

If Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.

Authorities say a house explosion in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown blew off the front of the row home and led to a fire that spread to nine other homes.

Leaders of the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were fatally shot last year want to rebuild and renovate the building.

Johnson & Johnson on Friday recalled a single batch of its baby powder as a precaution after government testing found trace amounts of asbestos in one bottle bought online.

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, died early Thursday.

It reflects a frustration among activists that issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail.

Impeachment may have leapfrogged to the top of the national agenda, however, members of Congress are returning to Washington this coming week with mixed hopes of success.

So is red meat good or bad for you? A team of international researchers is saying there isn’t enough evidence to tell people to cut back on red or processed meat.

Lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and its owners will be halted for six months in hopes of finalizing a settlement over the OxyContin maker's role in the national opioid crisis.

Willie Veasy's long-running appeal came to an end Wednesday morning, when a judge tossed out the murder conviction.