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With increased car and foot traffic, the ground underneath the Tidal Basin — home to memorials to Thomas Jefferson, FDR and MLK Jr. — is sinking. As sea levels rise, the walkways flood daily.

The water in the Gulf of Mexico is hot and the Mississippi River is high. That could spell disaster for Louisiana.

The island, which first acted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 back in December, has won praise for keeping the virus under control despite its close links with China.

A farmer fed up with boys shooting rabbits from a big Cadillac in front of his property in Grants Pass, Ore., fired at the car and hit Don Belding in the…

Geneticist Spencer Wells tells the story of early humans, and our eventual migration from Africa.

Geneticist Spencer Wells describes how he uses DNA samples to trace our individual origins going back 2,000 generations.

Two planned sites in Lisbon — a slavery memorial and an explorers museum — underscore a clash in Portugal's approaches to its colonial history.

By renouncing the special status, Gilead Sciences lets go of tax breaks, fee waivers and seven years without generic competition for remdesivir, its experimental COVID-19 treatment.

There’s a flower growing in the swampy bogs of the Southern Oregon coast that’s facing extinction.

Althouse Creek in Josephine County was one of the earliest gold mining regions in Southern Oregon. Mining continued there well into the 20th century.…