Thursday's vote puts the vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.

HEXLENA – Nearly 70 years ago, men in the Powellsville area took a leap of faith and worked to establish a volunteer fire ...

Hamilton looks upon his life in basketball as something he earned by outworking others. He’s never taken it for granted as he ...

A section of Interstate 40 in western North Carolina that collapsed during Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding will reopen ...

One perk of being elected president is choosing U.S. attorneys. Will a federal probe of North Carolina GOP legislative ...

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to 87 people who have passed away from Devon, or with links to the county. The touching ...

North Carolina native Dan Driscoll is nominated for secretary of the Army despite serving less than four years in the ...

At a live news conference on that date in 1987, Pa. State Treasurer Budd Dwyer pulled a .357-caliber revolver out of an envelope, said his final words, and killed himself in front of reporters ...

TORONTO — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is looking into the rates for phone calls at correctional facilities across the country, spurred by high long-distance charges ...

Tuesday, Moran announced he and Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) introduced legislation to increase access to care for veterans ...

Ted Budd, the congressman from the ... shouldn’t have been made public. At this one, Budd is seated at a table with another white guy and six or seven African-American women. As Budd and his pal smile ...

Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a group of rare conditions in which veins in the liver become blocked. An ultrasound for BCS may show atypical, narrowed, or potentially blocked veins inside the liver.