Patient advocates hope Dr. Michelle Tarver will lead the agency to focus more on safety and less on rapid approvals.

Exceptions to save a mother’s life don’t matter when doctors fear performing the procedure.

A new court, a death penalty case and even the weather have contributed to the go-slow process at Guantánamo Bay.

Tony Vargas, a Democrat vying to become the state’s first Latino representative, lost to Don Bacon, the Republican incu…

Some election lawyers said the giveaway may run into laws that prohibit paying people to register to vote.

Roswell, N.M., received nearly a third of its annual rainfall total in just a few hours on Sunday. Rescue efforts were …

In the 1960s, she worked with priests to serve residents of housing projects in Brooklyn. Decades later, she learned th…