During early brain development, the brain creates more connections than it needs, only to prune and strengthen the most used ones later in life.

Someone won a $2 million prize from Powerball's Wednesday night drawing, according to the Texas Lottery. The winning ticket was purchased at Walmart Supercenter, at 8555 Preston Road in Frisco.

The Trump administration has announced it’s issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by ...

Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing at least 34 Palestinians, according to local hospitals ...

More than 500 migrants arrived at the port of Lavrio near Athens on Thursday after being intercepted south of the island of Crete, after a surge of arrivals from Libya.

The flood that tore through the Texas Hill Country early July 4 left more than broken infrastructure and a ruined weekend; it ...

Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools. The trial highlighted ...

A new poll shows most Americans see child care costs as a major issue and support free or low-cost day care and paid family leave. But The-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research ...

The original Birkin bag created by Hermès for Jane Birkin in 1984 is up for auction in Paris. Sotheby’s expects the iconic ...

A British F-35B fighter jet has been stranded at an Indian airport for nearly a month due to a technical issue. The $115 million stealth aircraft landed safely at Thiruvananthapuram ...

Now that people have grown accustomed to building there, for the splendor and the economic rewards it yields, they are motivated to remain. And given our collective unwillingness to compel a ...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad marked a historic milestone as he turned 100. He called the birthday Thursday “quite frightening” to reach, yet shows no signs of slowing down.