Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife, Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all in a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died

Oprah Winfrey has chosen Amanda Rizkalla's debut novel, “Hungered,” as her new book club pick

Cornell students, professors and others are thronging a campus plaza to protest the university’s response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house in 2024

A Nicaraguan exile who was imprisoned and tortured after protesting against that country's government was deported by the U.S. back to his country, where he was immediately imprisoned once again by authorities

The FBI has arrested a California real estate agent at Los Angeles International Airport as she was leaving the country and accused her of spying on the Taiwan president’s family for China

An American citizen shot by a federal agent one year ago during an immigration crackdown in Chicago has filed suit against the federal government, alleging the agent lied about the shooting and had fired into her vehicle from behind

Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics

Tennessee's top Republicans are exploring alternative execution methods after the failed execution of Christa Pike

Pennsylvania has more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in decades