Move will offer more aid to town; cleanup been going on for 10 years The declaration is the first issued by the agency, which has grappled with the "toxic legacy" of a mine outside Libby, Montana, ...

There is a well-known saying in Afghanistan: "You can rent an Afghan, but you can't buy him." Some experts on the region believe a U.S. program to pay Taliban fighters to quit the organization is ...

A mass grave unearthed Tuesday in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, is believed to contain bodies from an epidemic of yellow fever that swept the city in the 1870s, police said. Two buildings from the ...