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A township employee was shot and killed inside a Pennsylvania municipal building Tuesday morning, officials said

Supreme Court justices in Brazil are getting a big pay raise that will trigger an increase of about $1 billion in public spending

A federal judge has deferred action on whether to unseal an apparent criminal complaint against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

American farmers still working to get out their remaining soybeans after a weather-plagued harvest season are struggling to figure out what to do with a record crop now their traditionally dominant export market is largely closed

China's President Xi Jinping has arrived in Spain for the first leg of an international tour that will include a global summit in Argentina, as well as visits to Panama and Portugal

A man charged with neglect in the death of a malnourished 9-year-old western Indiana boy with cerebral palsy has reached a plea agreement in the case

The FBI says a New Hampshire farm has been receiving multiple extortion letters in an attempt to collect $250,000 and has suffered thousands of dollars of damage to vehicles and a barn

After losing governor's races in Georgia and Florida, Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum join other black leaders to oppose one of President Donald Trump's picks for a lifetime federal judgeship

A German court has convicted a man on 28 counts of attempted murder in last year's attack on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team's bus

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) G. Owen Schaefer, National University of Singapore(THE CONVERSATION) The idea of scientists tinkering with the genes of babies was once the provenance of science fiction, but now it’s entered the realm of reality: On Nov. 26, Chinese scientist He Jiankui reported the historic live births of two twin girls whose genes he had edited. The goal may have been noble: to use CRISPR to

The Philippine president has accepted the resignation of his adviser on peace talks with insurgents and sacked two other officials due to corruption in an anti-poverty program created for insurgency-hit areas

Postponed Copa Libertadores final to be played outside of Argentina after fan violence

Regular network primetime shows take a break during the holidays but it's the busy season for Hallmark Channel

A temporary, emergency detention camp that opened in the Texas desert in June for an overflow of migrant children shows no signs of closing.

The Supreme Court is ordering a lower court to take a new look at a U.S. agency's designation of Louisiana timberland as a critical habitat for an endangered frog found only in Mississippi

The United Nations environment office is warning that the gap is widening between current greenhouse gas emissions and the levels needed to stop catastrophic global warming

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andreas Franz Prein, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research(THE CONVERSATION) A few large weather systems make all the difference between a wet and a dry year in the Southwest. Coming during the winter and spring, they account for the bulk of the rain and snow the regions receives. My colleagues and I were intrigued by the relationship between weather systems and rain and

Roger Ailes might not always have been a household name during his time at Fox News, but many media commentators believe he changed the media landscape forever. He's the subject of a new documentary.

It's OK to bow out of secret Santas and other gift exchanges if you don't have the funds to participate

Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter and White House adviser, is scheduled to visit a southwestern Idaho school district with Apple CEO Tim Cook