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There's a heated battle about the Olympics in Rio. Some health experts are calling for the games to be moved because of Zika. Others say attending the games doesn't pose a threat.

Linda Johns was in the midst of a presentation at a Seattle bookstore when she suddenly felt intense flu-like symptoms. But it wasn't flu. It was a heart attack, a type that hits healthy young women.

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel follows the family lines of two separated half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana: One is married off to an Englishman, while the other is sent to America and sold into slavery.

Sean Penn's new movie set in Africa got booed at Cannes. Critics said its African characters were "bleeding wallpaper." Here are 4 films that give African characters (and actors) their due.

The New York Times says entrepreneur Peter Thiel confirms he has been bankrolling the ex-wrestler's lawsuit. Gawker is appealing a jury award to Hogan of $140 million over publication of a sex tape.

At mass shooting sites from Orlando to Newtown to Virginia Tech, historians are collecting items that mourners and sympathizers leave and preserving them in archives.

Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa Sunday. The nun was praised for her work helping the poor in India. But critics say she only provided minimal assistance.

Private security guards used dogs to try to disperse demonstrators, who say the four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline could affect sacred sites and their drinking water.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will campaign Thursday at a historically black university in Charlotte.The campaign said Clinton will…

In 1950, women made up less than 30 percent of the workforce. By 2015, women accounted for nearly half. Here's a look at the current state of women in the labor force.