Pope Francis, who has been unable to appear in public for several weeks due to ill health, released a prayer on Sunday thanking hospital staff for his care. The pontiff has been receiving ...

A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday morning, the Secret Service said. The man, who is thought to have ...

Olly Alexander has been smashing it in showbiz for more than a decade. The 34-year-old's been a star on screen — like in the hit show Skins and in music, as the spirited front man of the Brit ...

Like many Americans, Pittsburgh-area resident Josh Lucas wishes the time change didn't have to happen. "You get acclimated to a way of being, and then all of a sudden the sky is a different color ...

Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism researchers see as a growing — and poorly understood — trend among young people who embrace mass violence. The attacks, at high ...

Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you ...

The attorneys general of Washington D.C., Maryland, and 18 other states are suing the Trump administration over the mass firing of federal employees. Their lawsuit joins several other legal ...

It's been a "sub-nominal" few days in the spaceflight realm. What connects these recent failures is that the spacecraft involved were developed by commercial companies, not NASA, as they seek to ...

"Canadiano with oat milk for Scooter—eh?" Canadian news organizations report that some Canadian coffee shops have rechristened the coffee drinks that have long been called Americanos as ...

President Trump's narrow victory in Wisconsin last November was partly due to his success in rural communities, where agriculture remains an economic engine. But agricultural groups say many ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive action that directs the U.S. Education Department to exclude certain federal student loan borrowers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

KPBS Reporter Tania Thorne says hundreds gathered for a rally at UC San Diego. Hundreds of UC San Diego faculty, staff and students came together Friday for the Stand Up for Science rally ...