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A new book explores the relation between a few key figures in American classical music and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century.

This year in young people's literature, Meg Medina's Merci Suárez Changes Gears won the Newbery Medal and Sophie Blackall's Hello Lighthouse took home the Caldecott Medal.

As Fourth of July festivities roll out across the nation this week, the celebrations hold special meaning for newly minted citizens.

As stores, restaurants and other businesses feel the shift to more people staying at home, stocks are tumbling and lawmakers are negotiating a possible rescue package.

The title novella of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's debut is set in the near future in Charlottesville, Va., where descendants of Sally Hemings' take shelter from a racist mob in Thomas Jefferson's manor.

A new survey of 10,000 Americans finds 61% of us are lonely. Young people, men and those new at their jobs are some of the hardest hit.

Ned Parker has covered Iraq for more than a decade. But the Reuters bureau chief abruptly left the country last week after a report of human rights abuses prompted threats from a Shiite paramilitary.

Most catches are exported to unagi-loving Asian nations, which pay up to thousands of dollars per pound. But one woman is raising and marketing eels for U.S. buyers: "Why not keep that value at home?"

WeWork has been cropping up in cities all over the world. And now, it's planning to go public. More and more Americans are expected to work from flexible workspaces over the next decade.

In northeastern Syria, local residents are watching the comings and goings from a rural airstrip they say is America's Syria footprint in the anti-ISIS war.