Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic’s efforts to reopen a problematic prison

Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.

The cuts would affect everything from cancer care to the ability to assess toxic exposure.

When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

The debate over a House chamber rule barring voting by proxy has flared up again after a House Republican voted last week despite allegedly not being in Washington, D.C. The