The method used to portray a part of the spherical Earth on a flat surface, whether a paper map or a computer screen, is called a map projection. No flat map can rival a globe in truly representing th...

The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.

Puerto Rico is rationing water across the island in response to intense drought, a plan that forces tens of thousands of people to go without water for 48 hours at a time.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel.

Photojournalist Cheney Orr joined Native American hikers to mark 150 years of Colorado statehood and to bless the future

This activity is designed to show students that geologic maps and cross-sections are each two-dimensional views of the same three-dimensional structure and that they must therefore agree. Students dev...