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The U.S. dollar's long dominance as the world's currency is fraying as global investors warm to a "sell America" trading strategy.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Lice is low down on threats to public health — they don't carry disease, and they don't jump or fly. But school systems and parents are still grappling with whether to keep kids with lice in class.

Officials from Russia and Ukraine met for a second round of peace negotiations in Istanbul. The discussions come after a surprise Ukrainian drone attack on remote Russian air bases Sunday.

The Trump administration on Monday froze more than $2.2 billion in contracts and multiyear grants for Harvard after the university said it would defy government demands to change certain policies.

House Republicans are still negotiating the details of a wide-ranging legislative package of President Trump's domestic priorities that they hope to advance by the end of next week.

Several centers for migrant children have opened in Texas. Authorities expect more children and families escaping violence from Central America to make their way north to the U.S. this coming year.

The eight-part drama that begins Thursday stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a British baroness with an Israeli passport. She's a fearless actor in a show full of kidnappings, seductions and betrayals.

Alaska Power Company customers in Tok and other small communities in the eastern Interior saw their electricity bills go up this year. Utility rate hikes…

A new survey by Rutgers University found two out of three Americans felt no improvement in the last year. And only about one in four expect things to get better in the year to come.