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Researchers found more than 17 tons of plastic debris on an uninhabited South Pacific island. It's some 3,000 miles from the nearest big city, but ocean currents bring a steady supply of trash.

They account for 1 in 4 foreign-born U.S. residents. Also, they tend to live in the suburbs and work in construction, service and leisure hospitality jobs.

If you enjoy sports only as an escape from political give and take, commentator Pablo Torre warns there's some bad news: You can no longer enjoy the NBA. Players and coaches are talking politics.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte claims a parliamentary election victory over anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, and his brand of ethno-nationalism.

A group of counties that gets revenue from logging lands within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument boundaries is suing the federal government.

Federal prosecutors in Oregon are getting a second chance to prove the armed occupation of a wildlife refuge was illegal. Jury selection is underway in Portland.

The American Conservative Union disinvited the far-right provocateur citing comments it said condoned "pedophilia." Hours later, Simon & Schuster said it was canceling the publication of his book.

U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown ruled the misdemeanor charges defendants face in the second Malheur Refuge trial won’t be heard by the jury, but rather in a separate trial before a judge.

Since floods in West Virginia destroyed thousands of homes, residents have struggled to find housing. Vocational students are constructing tiny homes, rather than bookshelves or birdhouses.

The president's business canceled memberships in the National Jupiter Golf Club, but kept the fees. A federal court has ruled the company must refund nearly $6 million.