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The order is a blow for the White House, which essentially tried to give state and local government officials power to veto resettlement. The judge says that appears to violate the Refugee Act.

A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning-poet Tracy K. Smith. She spent a year traveling the country as U.S. poet laureate. Where did she go?

The ERA's provisions include a guarantee that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of sex." But its legal status is uncertain.

Last year's data collected by the agencies is the latest confirmation that the Earth is steadily getting hotter. The planet is now almost 1 degree Celsius warmer than it was in the mid-20th century.

State officials say there are credible threats of violence related to Monday’s gun rights rally in Richmond.Governor Ralph Northam has issued a temporary…

Ari Shapiro talks with Tina Mai Chen, a professor at the University of Manitoba, about the death of a model worker who was featured on China's 1 yuan banknotes.

In Pike County, Ky., coal miners blocked a railroad track, demanding to be paid wages they said they were owed. After three days, they were paid and left the tracks.

After nearly six decades at the Department of Natural Resources, Bob Vollmer told WXIN-TV, "your body tells you when it's time to go." He joined the state agency in 1962.

Forty mice spent more than a month in orbit to test two approaches to strengthening muscle and bone in microgravity conditions. The results could help people with muscle and bone diseases.

Have you had a New Year's resolution that only lasted a few days? Tell us about it in a couplet — a short and sweet poem with two lines that rhyme.