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On Sunday, the selection committee set the field for the annual descent into March Madness. The four No. 1 seeds are defending champion Villanova, North Carolina, Kansas and Gonzaga.

In Martin County, the drinking water comes from a river contaminated by sewage and years of coal and gas extraction. Residents hope a new federal focus on infrastructure will help them fix the system.

People withe pre-existing conditions would still be protected from insurance discrimination under the new House GOP bill, but it remains to be seen how that benefit would be paid for.

Scientists hunting cures for cancer hope to find therapies with fewer side effects. But there's also new evidence that old-style chemotherapy sometimes helps gentler treatments work better.

In 2008, Russia and Georgia went to war over South Ossetia. The territory is controlled by Russia, and Russia decides where the border is. Towns have been split in half, divided by barbed wire.

Citing frustrations over Brexit negotiations, Nicola Sturgeon announced Monday that she will pursue a second referendum on Scottish independence, to be held as early as fall 2018.

In some ways, the American Civil Liberty Union's new national legal director, David Cole, has spent his entire career preparing for this moment.

The House Intelligence Committee had requested any applications for surveillance of Trump or his associates made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Obama has said the claim is baseless.

The abolitionist Harriet Tubman has now been memorialized with a state park in Maryland's Eastern Shore. A visitor center commemorates her role in transporting dozens of slaves to freedom.

The State Department is running out of visas to offer Afghans who worked with American troops, and the prospects appear dim for offering more. The end of the visa program for Afghans is taking place at the same time the U.S. is tightening other restrictions on travel, especially from mostly-Muslim countries.