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As trade tensions between the U.S. and China continue, Beijing is now requiring buyers of germanium and gallium to ask for approval from the Chinese government.

Colleen Shogan loves being surrounded by documents — and that's probably for the best. The former political science professor is now in charge of the 13.5 billion records in the National Archives.

As much as a quarter of the Palestinian population of the crowded Jenin refugee camp has fled an Israeli military offensive, the United Nations says.

Dangerous heat and elevated risks of wildfires are present in parts of the West, with climate change and El Niño both playing a role. Meanwhile, thunderstorms threaten the Midwest and the East Coast.

The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has approved a plan by Japan's government to dump nuclear waste water from the destroyed Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

After a spate of attacks last year, Long Island state parks officials have increased patrols and deployed more drones to scout the waters for possible danger.

The Secret Service said in a statement the White House was closed as a precaution as emergency crews investigated, and local fire officials determined that the substance was not hazardous.

The announcement is the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, following edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most forms of employment.

An obscure bit of brain tissue appears critical to both out-of-body experiences and our sense of being anchored to a physical self.