Elisabeth Ponsot

Updated: May 22, 2017 at 4:14pm EST

Unearthing the most complete picture of the origins of Mother’s Day began with a misplaced cardboard box in the kitchen of a West Virginia church.

Eurovision, the international song contest entering its 62nd edition this year, is back.

The US House of Representatives voted by a narrow margin on Thursday (May 4) in favor of an updated version of the American Health Care Act, the GOP’s long-promised replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare.

Thousands of people in Flint, Michigan, still grappling with the effects of a lead-poisoned drinking water crisis could face tax liens and even foreclosure on their homes for unpaid water bills.

FBI director James Comey waded back into the political fray on Wednesday (May 3), describing what he said was a painstaking decision to publicly reopen an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server just days before the US presidential election was held last fall.

What should have been a really, really good year for Fox News just keeps getting worse and worse.

An early morning tweet from US president Donald Trump had a resolute message for the American public: judging his administration on its first 100 days is a “ridiculous standard.”

This should have been a really, really good year for Fox News.

This April 20, the unofficial but much beloved stoner holiday known as 4/20, marijuana enthusiasts have more places to legally get high than ever before.

This story was updated on April 18.

A lawyer representing Dr. David Dao, who was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight on April 10, said Dao had been seriously injured and would likely file a lawsuit over the ordeal.

US housing secretary Ben Carson found himself in a claustrophobic predicament—and stuck inside a metaphor come to life—as he became trapped in an elevator during an April 12 visit to a Florida public housing complex, the Miami Herald reports.

Depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, your social-media feed on Feb. 17—when US president Donald Trump gave an unwieldy 77-minute press conference—may have been filled with posts like this:

As the 2016 race to the White House comes to a close on Nov. 8, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are making last-minute appeals at events in battleground states across the country.

Just a few hours before the final face-off between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, newly-released archive footage from 2008 shows Trump praising his Democratic opponent as a “very smart,” tough woman, who he believed would go down in history “at minimum as a great senator.”

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