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Workers in Indonesia are beneficiaries of incredibly generous severance laws. But when one factory closed, it looked as if the workers wouldn't get what they expected.

In some parts of the U.S., drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts say communities still face big challenges.

Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

Sugar Hill was a wealthy, Black Los Angeles neighborhood whose residents played a role in lifting racially restrictive covenants — only to eventually be erased by another force of racial segregation.

Warmer temperatures, drought and disease are putting stress on native tree species in Minnesota. Some trees are dying, but researchers are finding ways to help others adapt to a warmer climate.

So-called point-of-sale donations have sharply increased in recent years, bringing in hundreds of millions a year. But the requests to "round up" your bill for charity have really taken off.

When authorities find wildlife that are being illegally trafficked, at ports or airports, the animals are often in terrible shape. Sick, starved, distressed. A pilot project in Southern California aims to get seized wildlife immediate care.

Shortsighted policies have left Turkey dependent on imported food, critics say, as Turkish farmers struggle to keep alive indigenous and traditional forms of agriculture.

Poet and playwright Tess Taylor breaks down her diverse summer reading list, which includes a biography of Edgar Allen Poe, a poetry collection — and even a book about the act of reading.

Human ancestors got steadily larger over the last 1 million years. Our relatives living in colder places developed bigger bodies, a new study finds.

Iranians were promised that a nuclear deal would lead to an economic boost as sanctions vanished. But as the country votes for a new parliament on Friday, there's been no economic upturn.

Princes Cruise Lines lawyers are calling for the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the crew of their mammoth Star Princess cruise liner failed to help a Panamanian fishing boat in distress.

Map: Exploring the World is a new collection of maps, selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics and collectors, spanning everything from the Aztecs to modern digital imaging.

The New Zealand singer worked with a team of language experts to re-record five of her new songs in the indigenous Māori language, released just in time for Māori Language Week.

At the tennis tournament this year, as in years past, a Harris hawk named Rufus has been soaring above the stadium. His job is to keep pigeons from trespassing onto the iconic grass on Centre Court.

The palm-sized spider, which has been largely confined to the Southeastern states for nearly a decade, could soon colonize regions with colder climates to the north. But they're harmless to humans.

During WWII, hundreds of prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia performed Verdi's Requiem as a way to passively defy their Nazi captors. On Sunday, American musicians performed the same requiem in the former Nazi camp as a tribute to Terezin's victims and survivors.

Neil Young was just a few days shy of his 23rd birthday when he took the stage at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Mich., for what would become a legendary performance. It was 1968, and Young was about to release his self-titled debut solo album. His old band, Buffalo Springfield, had split up six months earlier, and few people even knew who Young was. But to his own surprise, Young drew a sold-out audience. Now, 40 years later, the recording of that performance is finally being made available. Hear it here in its entirety.

There's no fowl play here — just blame the supply chain, our comfort food habits and a simple fact of nature. Wings might be pricier, but there's no shortage of them, experts say.

Ukraine's Orthodox Christians, divided by war and politics, stake their claim to the country's most important religious site — Kyiv's Caves Monastery.