The sound of hard work, dedication and Viking pride rang loud this past weekend as the Avery County High School Viking Band ...

A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, the country is still piecing together details about the raid against a powerful drug gang in Rio de Janeiro's favelas.

The Federal Reserve announced a 25-basis-point cut to the federal funds rate at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The bankers had shifted into rate-cutting mode back ...

Republican lawmakers in Louisiana and Democrats in Virginia pressed ahead Wednesday with plans that could allow mid-decade redistricting as part of a growing national battle for partisan advantage in ...

Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced Tuesday that 24 additional organizations that provide services to Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable populations have received funding through the Budget ...

Houston on May 5, 1934. He lived on Henson Creek his entire childhood and eventually returned to the old homestead after ...

Worldwide, the rate of heat-related deaths has risen by 23% since the 1990s, and now claim 546,000 lives each year, researchers reported today in The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.

The head, its hair dyed red, was severed from the body and found in dense vegetation near a Rio favela, some 24 hours after Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation.

Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will seek a truce in their tit-for-tat trade war on Thursday, with the US president predicting a "great meeting" but Beijing being more ...

The Avery County Board of Education met in closed session Tuesday evening, Oct. 28, to discuss personnel matters, emerging ...

Google parent Alphabet reported its first-ever $100 billion quarterly revenue on Wednesday, powered by strong growth across its core search business and rapidly expanding cloud division that was buoye ...

Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, ...