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Jaribu Hill didn’t opt for law school until her early 40s. She’d been a singer, actress, teacher and labor organizer before learning a college classmate had become head of a group for black female judges. “I can do that, too,” she thought. Hill has since become a leading civil rights and workers’ rights lawyer in Mississippi and now, at 70,...

Chinese Americans are pushing for Chinese rail workers, some of whom lost their lives, to get more than a token mention in history books as several days of celebrations kick off this week in Utah to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the completion Transcontinental Railroad.

Here’s a seemingly simple math question: what is 206 minus 27? If you answered 156 you’d be right – at least if you were driving a Jaguar I-Pace from Detroit’s Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to the suburb of Pleasant Ridge during the recent polar vortex.

Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA’s InSight spacecraft sent back a “nice and dirty” snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like a work of art to scientists. The photo revealed a mostly smooth and sandy terrain around the spacecraft with only one sizable rock visible. “I’m very, very happy that it looks like we have...

After a six-month trip, NASA’s InSight Spacecraft landed on Mars and sent back its first image of the red planet on Monday.

The shooter rapidly fires through the front doors of an elementary school with an assault rifle and blasts his way down the hallway. Screaming children are running for their lives or frozen in fear. Teachers quickly try to decide: barricade the doors, or make a run for it with their students? Police officers arrive with guns drawn, working their way...

Supercar makers have long known that parked next to that snarling Lamborghini, a racing-red Ferrari, or stately Bentley at some of the globe’s toniest addresses is a practical SUV. With the sport utility vehicle market growing by leaps and bounds, they increasingly want in on the profits. Lamborghini unveiled the once-improbable Urus SUV on Monday at its headquarters in Sant’Agata,...

Seth Meyers couldn’t deliver all the news, so his writer Amber helps out. And she’s got something to say about Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie addressed criticism over his response to flooding at the Jersey Shore.

Southland air regulators Saturday approved a sweeping abatement order aimed at minimizing the three-month-old leak of natural gas from a Porter Ranch-area storage facility.

For the third time this month, air quality regulators met on Saturday to consider a proposed abatement order aimed at minimizing natural gas that has been leaking at a facility in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles.

A NASA spacecraft for the first time has arrived at a dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration.