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Alternative tests are emerging, the agency says, such as computer modeling and tissue studies of cells grown in the lab. Environmental advocates say the move is too quick, and disregards human health.

Ross is under the microscope again — this time for reportedly pressuring government scientists to back President Trump over a misleading tweet about Hurricane Dorian.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises a move that will likely draw international opposition — declaring sovereignty over a swath of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

While wind energy is marketed as the future's green energy solution, turbines last only about 20 years, and disposing of their behemoth fiberglass blades is both complicated and costly.

The Israeli prime minister made the controversial pledge just a week before the country's general election. It would leave a future Palestinian state surrounded by Israeli territory.

Following a report that UVA’s medical center had sued 36,000 people over the last six years for unpaid medical bills, the hospital has announced new…

A review of the third Democratic presidential debate. How the candidates played off of one another, who shined and who didn't.

Experts at the Food and Drug Administration are reviewing a possible new treatment for children who are allergic to peanuts. If approved, it would be the first protective therapy against peanut allergies to gain FDA approval.

Actress Felicity Huffman will spend 14 days in jail and pay a $30,000 fine for paying a test administrator to correct wrong answers on her daughter's SAT exam. She's the first parent sentenced for cheating to get children into college.

Earth has experienced cataclysmic life-destroying events before. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what this means for humans in the midst of climate change.