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The political divide between rural and urban America has become more obvious this year. But people living in cities and those in rural towns may have more in common than they realize.

On Medicare's 50th birthday, two brothers who helped get it off the ground tell their stories. A younger member of the Lee family is at the helm of Covered California, the state insurance exchange.

Nebraska cities are among many across the Midwest struggling with flooding. An intense storm caused the Missouri and Platte Rivers to rise, costing lives and widespread property damage.

Archaeologists and historians announce that they've identified at least two sites consistent with mass graves in Tulsa, site of race riots in 1921 that had been pushed to the margins of history.

The pedestrian and cyclist path would make use of a one-mile stretch of abandoned, elevated concrete track. "You are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city," Piano says.

The International African American Museum opens Tuesday in Charleston, S.C. It's built on the site of Gadsden's Wharf, where enslaved Africans entered the country.

Most children returned to school in Newtown, Conn., on Monday as some families buried victims of the last week's shootings.

Climate change is transforming the Arctic, and putting indigenous communities in Alaska at risk.

Ahead of the New Year's weekend, the airline said that Friday will see minimal disruptions after its slashed schedule stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers during a wintry holiday stretch.

Sarah M. Broom's extraordinary memoir about the New Orleans home she grew up in describes decades of life lived — as well as the systemic racism that ultimately contributed to the house's destruction.