Scores of pickers move along a raised platform of rubbish, scooping up pieces of plastic with iron hooks, alongside cattle and hundreds of egrets also scouring the trash. The smell is rancid atop what the pickers dub "Yemen" -- a volcano-like mound of...

TOKYO (AP) — Of course, an Olympic medal has significance. But the bouquet of flowers that every medal winner is being handed at the Tokyo Olympics has deeper meaning. Much deeper. The sunflowers and all the other flowers in the bouquet were grown in...

Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, DC, on Wednesday announced that she wants to hire 20 more police officers this year, and 150 more in the fiscal year 2022, amid rising crime.

“It’s pretty bad,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in an arguable understatement of the chamber's mood as Covid cases spike.

The $1.2 trillion spending package to invest in America's infrastructure, includes $65 billion in funding for high-speed broadband.