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After repeated reports of ethics violations by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a Senate panel plans to review ethics standards for Supreme Court justices.

Much like clouds, we are all shifting and changing, solid one moment only to dissolve in the next. And who knows what form our lives will take next?

In Sudan's vast capital city Khartoum, residents are forced to spend another day sheltering in place, as full scale urban warfare between rival ruling military factions explodes around them.

Public health officials say wastewater surveillance could help them track trends for many kinds of diseases - from COVID to polio - but only if they can keep the testing system going.

In 1577, King Philip II of Spain wanted to know whom he was ruling and where in his vast kingdom they were. So his viceroy asked the indigenous groups in what is now Mexico to draw some maps for him.

In Central African Republic, a nation rife with violence, scouts help with public health campaigns, security — and negotiations with rival militant groups. Plus they're trained to do household chores.

The two Koreas have taken another remarkable step toward linking up — by train.

For three weeks, Kilauea volcano has sent molten rock into the ocean, spewed toxic gas into the air and pushed ash plumes upward. Photographer Mario Tama has documented the destruction.

European leaders are looking to set up migrant holding sites outside the EU, following a controversial Australian precedent, writes an anthropologist who researches migration in North Africa.

In 2012, a Justice Department probe shut down law firms that helped Chinese asylum-seekers fabricate or inflate claims of persecution. The clients were left alone, but now 13,500 may have to leave.

For as long as he can remember, Angel Benavides, 14, has moved with his parents to follow the harvest. He splits his school year between Texas and North Dakota — and keeping up hasn't been easy.

More than 200 migrants die attempting to cross the Southwest border each year. Slowly, scientists at a Texas laboratory are seeking the story of their bones.

The city of New Orleans is on a first-name basis with Quint Davis, who has happily occupied a central role in the city's beloved Jazz and Heritage Festival since the very beginning.

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

Bangladesh, which has taken in more than 650,000 Rohingya refugees, had announced it would start sending them back to Myanmar this week. But now the plan is on hold. That's fine with the refugees.

The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries — and that Big Sugar works to make sure soda and candy aren't targeted as cavity culprits.

For one family fleeing violence in Honduras, the past is terrifying, the present is confusing, and the future is uncertain. They recently visited an El Paso immigration court as they seek asylum.

Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas are still experiencing lasting effects. "All these people that think that you can just move on — you don't," one survivor says.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia claim Iran is behind the attack. Iran denies involvement. Here's what the physical evidence shows.

The price of vanilla is 10 times higher than it was a few years ago. That's bringing unimagined wealth to local villages — and problems as well.

Conservationists are deploying audio recorders, neural networks and predictive analytics in a bid to save elephants.

Looking at Claire Rosen's photographs can feel like walking into someone else's dreams. In her new book Imaginarium she provides inspiration and advice for curating a creative life.

In 2009, then-Veterans Affairs head Eric Shinseki declared that all homeless veterans would have housing by 2015. New Orleans has made big strides, but in Los Angeles, the problem persists.

Germany, always aware of its history of war, is taking in tens of thousands fleeing war and poverty. Many Germans have welcomed the newcomers, but some are struggling with the changes they bring.

The senator was met with a standing ovation upon his return to the Democratic caucus.