Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores

New data show the number of ballots rejected for late postmarks has soared in the vote-by-mail states of Washington and Oregon

Lonnie Bunch is stepping down as the leader of the Smithsonian Institution after a challenging year

The Trump administration named four officials to take over senior roles at the Food and Drug Administration, including the agency’s top leaders for drugs and vaccines

A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s task force to fight crime has been arrested for pulling a gun on a fellow Guard member in a dispute over regulation haircuts

A 22-year-old man from Singapore has pleaded guilty to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitcoin from a Washington, D.C., resident and then embarking on a wild spending spree with the laundered proceeds

A family member says all four relatives aboard a small plane that went missing off the Bahamas were found dead

The White House says restoration work on the mansion's North Portico should be completed by mid-September before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States later in the month

President Donald Trump has honored the victims of the Sept_ 11, 2001, attacks by vowing to “never forget.”