The Northern Virginia Regional Commission unanimously appointed Craig T. Fifer its next executive director at a special ...

People with arthritic knees can ease their pain by making "subtle" changes to the way they walk, suggests new research.

After committing to the University of Connecticut this summer, Hatfield is one of four Division I commitments on this ...

On the evening of Aug. 1, a residential neighborhood on Ellisville Drive was the scene of an exchange of gunfire between two ...

Typhoon Podul pounded Taiwan on Wednesday, shutting down businesses, grounding flights and knocking out power for tens of thousands of households, while parts of mainland China made ready for the ...

Forget ice cream, sorbet or even the beloved Italian gelato -- when Romans swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the ...

Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine was gaining speed and seizing more ground Wednesday ahead of a summit in Alaska between ...

Turkey's foreign minister and his Syrian counterpart on Wednesday warned Israel not to stir up chaos in Syria and demanded an ...

Negotiators from 184 countries remained riven Wednesday on how to curb plastic pollution, less than 36 hours before they were ...

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine met with local farmers in Culpeper last week to discuss a number of issues in the agriculture community.

One month after Congress passed a federal budget bill with a provision directing NASA to transfer a space shuttle to Texas, ...

Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim, famed for his critiques of political repression, neoliberalism and Western hegemony, has ...