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Barbara Johns led a student strike in 1951 that became part of the foundation for Brown v. Board of Education.

A citizen's group in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, Mexico, is trying to address urban sprawl and rising temperatures through ambitious greening projects.

Wednesday night's game between the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder was postponed because the Rockets did not have the required number of players for the game.

The president granted clemency to many more individuals on Wednesday, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his son-in-law's father, Charles Kushner.

Composer Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" is a holiday favorite. But the bestselling song has a melancholy backstory.

"The Boys in the Band" actor talks about his role in the Netflix film of the groundbreaking 1968 play.

Back in March, a coronavirus outbreak at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge, N.J., led state officials to evacuate all 78 of its residents. Within weeks, nearly half of them were dead.

In March, Los Angeles stopped doing homeless-encampment cleanups, in line with CDC recommendations. But then trash pileups and blocked sidewalks brought a new set of public health concerns.

President Trump called a new relief bill a "disgrace" and left Washington, D.C. If he doesn't sign it by Monday, Congress will need to pass a stopgap measure to keep the government from shutting down.

Residents of Portage, Mich., are bursting with civic pride as the Pfizer plant there produces COVID-19 vaccines. And they're showing that pride in some unusual ways.