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Several states have embraced a new way to fund school choice: tax credits that pay for scholarships to private schools. The scholarships are popular with school choice advocates, but even some supporters say the program may be open to abuse.

The Army Corps of Engineers is dredging the Elvis Stahr Harbor at Hickman, Kentucky this week. Low water levels on the Mississippi River have led to a…

While the state's highest court could make a ruling before Election Day, new voter ID laws also are in court or under Justice Department review in several other key states.

The Maslow Project teaches homeless children how to cope and become self-sufficient, using methods such as art therapy.

The move is the latest salvo in a tense relationship between the state and federal government.

In South Sudan, a man's worth is measured by bovine wealth, and ever-increasing dowries are paid in cows. Cattle-rustling is an age-old problem. But recently, these raids have become markedly more violent, and the new nation is having difficulty stopping them.

Egyptian security forces are conducting a major campaign in the peninsula after a deadly attack by masked gunmen on a border post earlier this month. While the government says it will deal with the threat, Sinai residents worry that they will be blamed, targeted and abused as a result of the assault.

Conservation Fisheries helps save small, rare freshwater fish, such as chubs, darters, madtoms and minnows.

Gunmen reportedly stopped three minibuses, demanded that passengers show their IDs, and killed only those who were Shiite Muslims. That followed Thursday's attack by militants on an air base.

To help fight rising rates of inactivity, a physiologist argues that doctors should write prescriptions for exercise for inactive patients.