The State Department says the number of terrorist attacks around the world dropped by 18 percent last year but there was an alarming rise in extremist violence in...

Muslim Filipino rebels have helped Indonesian terror suspects evade capture by giving them refuge and access to weapons and funds in the southern Philippines, a...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says a fatal explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant last August occurred because safety lapses resulted in a runaway chemical...

Women’s college basketball is getting good marks in racial diversity for its coaching hires.

Colleges and universities are doing a better job at being inclusive in women’s basketball coaching hires, according to the latest Black Coaches and Administrators...

A mortgage industry group says there were a record number of mortgage fraud incidents last year, and Rhode Island made its first appearance as the nation’s top...

Police in Vermont have closed the book on the mysterious death of a 19-year-old Middlebury College student.

Two independent infectious disease experts who inspected seven NFL facilities reported Thursday that the incidence of MRSA infections in the league is low and steadily...

The CEO of USA Track and Field recommends paying athletes $15,000 for setting a personal best at the Olympics and shortening trials to improve the team’s...

More needs to be done to deal with an epidemic of rape in the world’s conflict zones and to help victimized women, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday,...

General Motors Corp. says its auditors have raised substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue operations.

Spiraling drug violence in Mexico, narcotics trafficking elsewhere in Latin America and a thriving opium trade in Afghanistan pose significant national security threats...

Cocaine smuggling to Europe is dramatically increasing through West Africa, posing a substantial threat to the stability of a region already troubled by war and...

In an unflinching breakdown of what went wrong with the American track team at the Olympics, a task force lashed out at the relay system, recommended streamlining...

A task force reviewing the U.S. track team’s failures at the Beijing Olympics has issued a report calling for changes in the relay system, the Olympic trials and...

The corrupt elite of Cambodia, one of the world’s most impoverished nations, has laid the groundwork for siphoning off vast profits from a coming boom in mining...

The corrupt elite of Cambodia, one of the world’s most impoverished nations, has laid the groundwork for siphoning off vast profits from a coming boom in mining...

Wrapping up an eight-year investigation of possible links between industrial pollution and health risks in the Great Lakes region, federal researchers said information...

Baseball authorized nearly 8 percent of its players to use drugs for ADHD last season, which allowed them to take otherwise banned stimulants.

ADHD was on the rise in the baseball again last season.