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In industries ranging from health care to manufacturing to entertainment, workers across the country are willing to strike for better wages and working conditions.

Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.

The 2016 World Series is a dream matchup for many. The Chicago Cubs, title less since 1908, will face the Cleveland Indians who last won a championship a mere 68 years ago.

A majority of Americans say special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was fair, but about half of registered voters say it will not be an important factor in how they vote for president in 2020.

The Washington Nationals will meet President Trump at the White House on Monday to celebrate their World Series win. At least one player has declined to attend.

After eight days of testimony and hours of closing arguments, the 12 jurors began deliberating Tuesday morning. Rittenhouse is charged with five felony counts and faces life in prison if convicted.

New York City taxi drivers are now in the second week of a hunger strike outside City Hall in Manhattan. They're demanding debt relief for thousands of drivers who are facing financial ruin.

In many cultures around the world, parents don't need chore charts or allowances for kids to pitch in around the house. A new study shows how parents in these cultures teach children to be helpful.

Political parties are already looking ahead to the midterm elections in November, and Democrats are feeling uneasy about holding onto power in Congress.

The Senate majority leader downplayed the risks of holding such a public demonstration of the rift within his caucus ahead of the midterm elections.

"Micro-influencers" work with big companies to sell products on social media. Consumer groups are increasingly concerned that many posts on Instagram and platforms aren't clearly marked as ads.

The state's coal industry is shrinking fast; more than 10,000 workers have lost their jobs since 2008. A small firm in eastern Kentucky is turning unemployed coal workers into software developers.

Since the company's founding in 1903, the name Ford has been synonymous with the automotive industry. Company founder Henry Ford Sr. became known for innovation, transforming cars into commodities for the masses and his company into an American icon. A look at selected milestones from the company's history.

The so-called "Downing Street Memo" — a secret British pre-Iraq war memo that some critics believe proves Bush administration officials "fixed" intelligence to build support for the war — gets a public hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill. But what does the memo, and the other leaked documents that support it, actually say? Alex Chadwick discusses the document with Slate defense policy analyst Fred Kaplan.

Many school districts along the Gulf Coast have stopped functioning, at least temporarily. Getting the youngsters back in school -- wherever they are now -- is a huge challenge. Claudio Sanchez, sorts out some of the key questions about the task.

The Saint Peters Peacocks made history Friday, becoming the first No. 15 seed to advance to the NCAA men's college basketball tournament's Elite Eight. But how did they get here?

Rodrigo Chaves wins an election that political analysts said was marked by a lack of voter enthusiasm due to the multitude of personal attacks that characterized the campaign.

In cases from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Republican state legislatures sought to block decisions issued by state supreme courts based on the states' respective constitutions.

Politicians running for office often call Washington a swamp filled with inefficient bureaucrats and leeches. But many in the capital have devoted themselves to making government a tool for good.

In Congress, there continues to be bipartisan opposition to Russia's actions in Ukraine, but there's trouble for the Biden administration's request for new spending to deal with the pandemic.

The political right is making hay out of a recent filing in special counsel John Durham's investigation into the Trump-Russia probe. We break down the truth behind their outlandish claims.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell used terms like "climate" and "low-carbon" more frequently in recent annual reports, but their actions on clean energy didn't match their words, researchers conclude.

Apartment renters showed up in force at the state Capitol recently to oppose a plan by out-of-state companies to help landlords charge a new fee to their tenants, but industry forces had the votes.

If confirmed, Christopher Wray will take over a vast agency with more than 30,000 employees and a myriad of departments that the public has come to know through depictions in popular culture.

As biotech investments and medical device development falters, hospitals are turning to other avenues to help cut costs: streamlining billing systems and investing in simpler medical products.