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The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority deemed the boost that universities give some applicants purely on the basis of their ethnicity or skin color incompatible with the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the laws.

National Geographic, the 135-year-old imperfect chronicler of the planet and its people, is shrinking to a shell of its former self.

Bethany Birch had pain in her diaphragm on and off for eight months in 2016.

Nominations define parties. But what we’re seeing in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s futile challenge to President Joe Biden is an odd situation in which a nomination skirmish won’t change anything in the Democratic Party, but might have real impact on the Republican Party.

A recent column about dairy foods brought these questions from Nancy in Arizona: “Are you paid by the dairy association? Why would you claim that lactose intolerant people can eat dairy in moderation?”

The short-lived rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, did not yet jettison the Kremlin's military leadership. But it may have had a more profound domestic and geopolitical impact: piercing the aura of invincibility so carefully cultivated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I know what it’s like to wait for someone lost at sea.

Texas’ first locally acquired case of malaria in 30 years was recently reported by health officials. The patient was diagnosed with the disease after working outdoors in South Texas’ Cameron County, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement Friday.

While Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour may be capturing our collective attention at the moment, there’s an admittedly less compelling event on stage in 2023: the Farm Bill. By some accounts a dusty relic of the New Deal Era, the Farm Bill contains billions of dollars for anti-hunger and agricultural programs. And…

DALLAS — As scorching temperatures are expected to shift away from North Texas ahead of Fourth of July weekend, officials warn the heat can still be dangerous — a fact evidenced by more than a dozen weather-related deaths across the state in recent days.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill that will allow the Florida Department of Transportation to study the use of phosphogypsum, a mildly radioactive byproduct of the phosphate manufacturing process, in road construction.