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There are new ways to make the most of your charitable donations while getting serious tax deductions.

Qatar is mediating hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas. The country is also a U.S. ally with a major U.S. base there. Qatar is also home to a Hamas office and a number of Hamas leaders.

As baby boomers enter their retirement years, old age is looking different than previous generations.

When confronted by actual journalists, Sports Illustrated deleted the evidence.

Northwestern University is celebrating the first graduates from its bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated students.

The Senate is set to vote on the Keystone XL pipeline although President Obama has vowed to veto it. What does Nebraska's Supreme Court ruling allowing the pipeline to proceed mean for those involved?

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen previously ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was unlawful in 2021 and the Biden administration tried to create a new version of the program that would satisfy his concerns.

Classical Learning Test (CLT), the Christian and conservative-backed alternative to the SAT and ACT exams, is the latest move by Gov. Ron DeSantis to overhaul Florida's education system.

Marine biologist Caitlin Carroll was lucky to escape the Maui fires. But she's stayed to help rebuild.

Racially concordant care is associated with better health outcomes, but more than 90% of midwives are white.

The polarizing opera singer may be gone, but she is not forgotten. Callas died 27 years ago. When she was alive and singing, she was the opera diva many people enjoyed criticizing.

Most states across the country saw improvements in math. But in many states, reading scores either stalled or fell further behind where they were before the pandemic.

Palestinians, as well as some left-wing Jewish-Israelis, are facing death threats, suspensions from school, and are even being fired from their jobs for their social media posts expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

In 1911, 146 people, mostly women and girls, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City after locked doors and a collapsed fire escape prevented them from fleeing their burning building.

The Pakistani opposition is intensifying its campaign against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and his imposition of emergency rule. Meantime, hundreds of lawyers have been detained, along with activists and other Musharraf opponents.

The blockbuster new video game coming out Friday on the PlayStation Five.

Lawyers opposed to Gen. Pervez Musharraf's candidacy in next week's presidential election engaged in running battles with police Saturday in Islamabad.

This week brought the deadliest fighting in Pakistan's tribal belt for years. The tribal people living in the in the mountains of Waziristan have been caught in the middle of the conflict, which has links to the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

The death toll from violence following the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto rises to more than three dozen. The government accuses a militant tribal leader, but others say this accusation is just to cover up the government's own failure to protect Bhutto.

In Israel today U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israeli government officials that "we have your back” with military support after last Saturday’s deadly attacks by Hamas.

The South Dakota Republican explains why he voted for Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House, and what the inability over the past two weeks to elect a Speaker has meant for the GOP.

This comes as much of the pandemic-era aid that kept the industry afloat has ended.

Imani Perry is a professor and scholar of race, gender, sexuality and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Pakistan's army has moved into the tribal region of North Waziristan, where it has been fighting Islamist militants. The fighting is the deadliest violence for several years in an area which the United States says is a haven for al Qaeda and the Taliban. Pakistan claims it has killed 200 militants; 45 troops are also dead.

The Nano — the Indian-made car that looks like a jellybean and is billed as the cheapest car in the world — is being launched today by its manufacturer Tata Motors. The Nano was unveiled early last year to huge fanfare, and its release comes six months later than planned.