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Critic David Orr surveys the "jumbled landscape" of American poetry to select his favorite collections of the year: five books that will alternately comfort and challenge you.

The Biden administration is looking into several of the deadliest airstrikes to see if Israel is misusing U.S. weapons. But the administration has been reluctant to use its military aid as leverage.

A report from the nonprofit March of Dimes finds that 36% of counties in the U.S. are "maternity care deserts," meaning they have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no obstetric providers. Ohio had the most impacted by overall reductions in access to care.

The U.S. government is telling Americans it's "past time" to leave Ukraine. But James Berk, an optician from New Jersey, has a Ukrainian wife and a newborn baby. For now, they're staying put.

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

When Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee with anti-Semitic stereotypes, she also may have inflated AIPAC's clout.

These millennials and teenagers no longer want to stay silent. They are using what they know best — the Internet — to counter the Islamic State's propaganda.

Two of the four Americans who were held captive and survived a kidnapping in Mexico last week were taken back into the U.S. shortly before noon on Tuesday amid a heavily armed convoy.

The poet laureate's collection tells a tale of a fierce and ongoing fight for sovereignty, integrity, and basic humanity. It's a plea that Americans take responsibility for what's done in our names.

Ada Deer, the former United States assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs and Native American leader in Wisconsin, has died at age 88.