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The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as "unprecedented."

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Millions of drivers and air travelers may face severe weather and long lines over the next few days. More than 50,000 flights are expected to take off on Tuesday, one of the busiest travel days.

The Department of Education says it will resume collections on May 5 and send wage garnishment notices "later this summer." Here's how to know — and what to do — if you'll be affected.

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series "Dr. Kildare" who found a second career as an award-winning "king of the miniseries," has died. He was 90.

The assessment is something Denhollander says she and others have been asking the university to do for years.

Shady Rest Country Club in Scotch Plains, N.J., was established in 1921. The sports and entertainment venue is being renovated, with help from a special historic preservation program.

Bills introduced this week in the Michigan House aim to put up a bigger wall between lawmakers and lobbyists.The legislation would require lawmakers and high-level public officials—like the governor and department heads—to wait at least two years after leaving office before becoming a lobbyist.

From fishing and heavy industry to recreational waterfronts and new technology, a dizzying array of interest groups are using —and sometimes abusing — our biggest economic asset: the Great Lakes.