A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Ann Patchett is a hugely popular writer. She was a Pulitzer finalist for her book The Dutch House. Her most recent novel, Tom Lake, was a New York Times ...

Bomb threats that U.S. officials linked to Russian email domains disrupted what was generally a smooth voting experience ...

Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year’s election, ...

Coalfield residents across the country feel ignored as their homes sink and flammable gas rises from underground mining. In ...

Republicans have won enough seats to control the upper chamber of Congress. Republicans were favored to flip control of the U ...

President-elect Trump has excelled at creating his own media image, from his earliest days as a real estate baron. His ...

There’s an area in China that’s home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks.

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, ...

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction who ...

It is a major victory for Republicans and a serious blow to Democrats’ efforts to maintain their majority in the Senate.

Despite Donald Trump’s focus on fossil fuels, his return to the White House won’t derail clean energy, analysts and activists ...

Federal, state, and local authorities are investigating the offensive messages that have been sent over the last two days.