U.S. & World

Bird flu has been found in nearly three-dozen dairy herds across nine states.

Kevin Goldberg and Mike Resetar reeled in a 718-pound bluefin tuna off the New Jersey coast that measured 112 inches.

Federal regulators on Tuesday sent warning letters to several drugmakers, taking issue with patents on popular drugs for weight loss, diabetes, asthma and other respiratory conditions.

The synchronized emergence of periodic cicadas is an evolutionary strategy. But some scientists think global warming could be affecting the insects’ cycles.

A mom says “the unthinkable happened” when she was handed the wrong baby in a hospital maternity ward and cared for the infant for several hours.

The next time you receive a medical bill, take a close look at it line by line. A certain type of fee is popping up on more and more bills, and experts say it can range anywhere from a couple bucks to $1,000.

The search engine can feed one’s availability bias, or the tendency to think easily accessible information is the most factual information.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical widely used as a paint stripper but known to cause liver cancer and other health problems.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced the updated guidance Tuesday

Britney Spears and her father Jamie Spears have settled the remaining issues in the court conservatorship that controlled her life and affairs for nearly 14 years.

The FCC has fined wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent.

FSIS was notified that the German establishment produced a portion of the identified lots without inspection before its shipment to the United States for distribution.