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New "supplement not supplant" rules, meant to balance spending between rich and poor schools, have critics gnashing their teeth.

Minnesota's governor has ordered new restrictions on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been blamed for killing bees. Many details of the plan, however, remain to be worked out.

The residents of a public housing complex in East Chicago, Ind., are now forced to move because of dangerously high lead levels in the area's soil. A lead smelting company used to lie on the site.

After their hastily arranged meeting in Mexico on Wednesday, President Enrique Peña Nieto disputed Donald Trump's claim that payment for the proposed border wall had not been discussed.

In a 4 to 4 ruling, the Supreme Court Wednesday refused an emergency request from North Carolina Republicans to reinstate a controversial voting law.

That's what 76 percent said in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Half the respondents also said they'd be uncomfortable traveling to places in Florida where mosquitoes are spreading Zika.

Smithsonian curators shipped some 100 pounds of souvenirs from the Republican and Democratic conventions — "great objects that engage issues for 2016" — back to the American history museum.

The domestic furniture manufacturing industry collapsed when U.S. companies shifted jobs to China. But in North Carolina, a new training course teaches the skills for much needed upholsterers.

If this was the opportunity for a turnaround speech that changed the broad public perception of the candidate, it was a moment not only missed but thrust away with both hands.

The envelope did have a hand-drawn map with a red dot showing its destination: a remote farm outside a tiny town. The envelope had some helpful details like: a horse farm with lots of sheep.