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The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.

Communities worldwide are dedicating Friday to honoring Dolly Parton. The day falls on Sept. 25, a wink at her hit song “9 to 5.”

The move comes after years of demands from President Donald Trump for lower interest rates.

Despite being some of the most-vetted immigrants in the nation, most Salvadorans with TPS have no path to permanent status in the U.S.

Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

Each election, tens of millions of Americans vote by mail, and evidence from court records and studies shows only a tiny fraction of those ballots are fraudulent.

Unexpected absences can cost employers tens of thousands of dollars a month. An app that helps workers with last-minute transportation, food and childcare is making a difference.

It has now been one year since President Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital and deployed thousands of members of the National Guard to its streets. Questions continue to mount ...

When Alaska Airlines wanted to optimize its operations, it turned to a small startup called Air Space Intelligence. Now the FAA has hired the company for a major reboot of the entire U.S. airspace.

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months ...

Trump officials say they found 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states. Those states don't know where the numbers came from, and some worry what the claims may portend for the midterms.

Only about 1 in 8 nurses are men, but their share is growing. A strong job market for nurses and sustained efforts to recruit men into the field have made a difference, including in the South.

A group of 150 people from 50 countries has become U.S. citizens at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.

Applying a modern lens to the Declaration of Independence reveals new meaning in parts of the text.

The ICE agents who threatened a Syracuse poll worker for an Instagram post warned a Rochester man in an unsettling way.

In January, Paigelynne Gonyea posted about the immigration surge in Minneapolis. This week, she was visited by ICE officials who claimed one of her posts had doxxed a federal agent.

An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.