The Fed issued its decision in a statement after its latest meeting, at which it kept its key rate at a two-decade high of roughly 5.3%.

A longtime fixture in the Brooklyn literary scene, he never achieved major commercial success in the U.S., but was widely admired overseas for his cosmopolitan worldview and erudite and introspective style.

The secretary of state is on his seventh visit to the region since the war erupted in October, aiming to secure what has been an elusive deal between Israel and Hamas that could avert an Israeli incursion into the southern Gaza town of Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering.

Louisiana State Police carried out a sweeping search warrant last week at the Archdiocese of New Orleans, seeking a long-secreted cache of church records and communications between local church leaders and the Vatican about the church's handling of clergy sexual abuse.

“I think starting to have a more realistic conversation — both among leaders within this building and then with the public and residents — would really benefit all of us.”

The rules are affecting not just women who want therapeutic abortions, meaning procedures to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.

A two-week standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters and college administrators at Columbia University in New York has come to a head.

Cannabis has been a Schedule I drug since 1970.

Dueling groups of protesters have clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another.

Pennsylvania is taking steps toward becoming the latest state to punish someone for using a Bluetooth-connected device to track someone without their permission

House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson on Wednesday announced a series of proposals that will be part of legislation setting farm and nutrition policies for the next five years.

An official at Pitt Ohio said the technology isn’t in place to electrify trucking fleets yet.

There are as many as 3 million abandoned wells nationally, including an estimated 350,000 in Pennsylvania — second only to Texas.