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In 1969, oil from an offshore well left beaches in Santa Barbara, Calif., coated with crude and littered with dead birds. The country's reaction helped create the modern environmental movement.

China's dynamic economy is slowing, giving some U.S. officials confidence America will have the upper hand with China in tough trade talks. But Chinese leaders may not be inclined to make concessions.

In his new book, the author imagines a world where officers known as Speculators track down liars, in a cross between a dystopian novel and a classic detective story.

Director Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Blue Moon, which focuses on one fateful night toward the end of lyricist Lorenz Hart's life.

Lawmakers are looking into how the big online platforms are displacing mainstream media and what that means for democracy.

President Trump is visiting Iowa on Tuesday. The swing state has been hard hit by natural disasters and man-made crises. Farmers have also taken a hit from the administration's trade policies.

The U.S. Women's National Team began defense of its 2015 Women's World Cup title Tuesday with a game against Thailand. It's the first of three matches for the U.S. in the tournament's opening round.

In 1994 on the National Mall, thousands of American teens pledged abstinence until marriage. The movement it created has influenced sex education in schools to this day.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued its final report in an investigation into the legacies of federal Indian boarding schools.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps trying, and failing, to get grizzly bears taken off the endangered species list. Some worry that frustration over this could hurt efforts to protect the bears.