US Features

Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School was the first high school for African Americans in the United States, established with one teacher and 15 students in a church basement in ...

The desire for sustainable, and healthy alternatives to mass-produced foods is sweeping the nation, a notion of-which Oregon ...

Genetically altered versions of corn, soy, canola, and others have proven wildly successful in American agriculture, but the ...

President Barack Obama and his family got a new addition to the family on August 19—a Portuguese Water ...

Though the “ground crew” of the civil rights movement made sacrifices that changed society, there is still work ...

Kashi cereals, Campbell’s Soup, Skinnygirl Margarita, and many other brands have faced litigation in what consumers say is ...

According to a June paper published by researchers at George Regents University, 40 percent of American respondents said ...

The Mayo Clinic estimates nearly half of all school-aged children are bullied at some point. Bullying can be ...

Peace educator and author Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama’s sister, spoke of methods she uses to change people in ...

Rashid Nuri founded the non-profit Truly Living Well in 2006, and its multiple farms and gardens produce 30,000 ...

Charter schools are gaining increasing support compared to traditional public schools. The strongest argument for them is the ...

The way the sunlight falls on Kansas makes the surroundings in these photos glow like the settings Thomas ...

Personality traits have nothing to do with a preference for using left or right brain hemispheres, according to ...

A recent survey of the nation’s complaints by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the North American ...

On average lightning kills 93 people and injures 257 in America each year, according to a study by ...

A fire in Summit County, Utah, has burned as many as 15 homes, forcing the evacuation of a ...

American steam trains are waging a comeback. Since 2011, engineers have been working to develop a passenger train ...

On any given day, about half the American population is drinking tea, according to the Tea Association of ...

A great many animals of various sizes and colors once roamed freely through the heart of America.

Diamonds are a girls’s best friend, and American Hollywood stars tend to have very big best friends.

Ethan Anderson, the 8-year-old who was presumed kidnapped or missing, was found dead in a burned out home in ...

The landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case established that all citizens accused of a crime have the right to ...

Derek Medina, a 31-year-old man from Miami, posted a photo of his dead wife on Facebook on Thursday, ...

As the season for sunscreen, beaches, and barbeques nears its end, snow, skis, snowmobiles, snowboards and hot chocolate ...

Dhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends were indicted of obstruction of justice in the Boston Marathon bombing case, it was reported ...

An airplane from Ireland was forced to make an emergency landing at the Philadelphia International Airport due to ...

Two people were shot and kill and two were injured in a Ross Township, Pennsylvania, municipal government building, ...