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The city of Portland is poised to halt its work to determine what to do with the approximately 1,600 old brick and stone buildings that are predicted to collapse during the next big earthquake.

Traditionally, red is the color associated with alarm, but in California, Colorado and Ohio the worst COVID-19 tiers are purple. So how did purple become the cautionary color of the pandemic?

The Census Bureau is counting on the Supreme Court to resolve the legal battle by June so that 2020 census forms can be printed. But an appeal in a Maryland lawsuit could complicate that timeline.

Health and hospital officials in two states report that a Trump administration change to how pandemic data is collected has left them unable to access vital information.

CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook answered questions from members of a House subcommittee investigating whether these tech powerhouses have grown too powerful.

A grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence.

For her research, author Vanessa Bohns has people ask strangers for favors — sometimes quite odd ones. Participants consistently expect rejection, but most strangers agree to help.

Susan Faludi says that, growing up, her father was a "domineering, hyper-masculine patriarch." In her new book, she tries to understand his past and his decision to become a woman.

Indiana University canceled a planned exhibit of the artwork of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby. Now a one-day exhibit by new organizers is sold out.

Veterans groups are raising alarm about what they call indiscriminate cuts across the Department of Veterans Affairs.