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The stunning speed of the vaccines' development and rollout has helped tame COVID-19 in the U.S., which remains the worst-hit country in the world.
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The state law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The lower courts blocked its enforcement, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.
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There have been rescues of people trapped in homes destroyed by the "super cell" storm that was also hitting Georgia and Mississippi with more twisters and hail.
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The organization's reaction to North Carolina's 2016 "bathroom bill" has had a lasting impact, causing lawmakers to wonder if they'll lose lucrative sporting events.
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NASA is counting down to what should be the final major test of the massive rocket it is building to put the first woman and the next man on the moon.
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In the U.S. South — home to nine of the nation's 12 heaviest states — obesity is playing a role not only in COVID-19 outcomes but in the calculus of the vaccination rollout.
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The water outages in Jackson, Miss., began Feb. 15 as a winter storm swept across the state. An untold number of residents are still without clean water weeks later.
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Many Texans were getting the electricity back on, but millions still face either no water at all or are having to boil it to make it safe to drink.
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The powerful storm is bringing record-low temperatures, widespread power outages and hazardous conditions to a swath of the country the National Weather Service calls "unprecedented and expansive."
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The wriggling parasites are a scourge around the world. And in some ways, other countries are better at fighting them than the U.S. But a new effort in the rural South shows promise.