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The rocket got off the launchpad before exploding above the Gulf of Mexico.

California governor Gavin Newsom wants to make San Quentin, one of the state's most infamous prisons, look more like Norway's prisons.

Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, well known as part of his family's political dynasty, spent more than four decades in the Senate, where he championed health care, education and labor. Here, a look back at his life.

The Biden administration catalogued 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on federal land. It plans a new rule to better protect woodlands from fires and other climate change effects.

A gay club in Orlando was attacked Sunday morning in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The attack comes during Pride month, when LGBT events are planned across the country.

Photographs show the results of the 2010 midterm elections.

Twelve Muslim women discuss what it means to wear the headscarf — and why they decided to take it off.

Why that unassuming museum art — which you'll find behind taxidermic bison and birds — deserves a closer look.

There's only one way to walk from South to Central America — a route so fraught with danger that no one with any other option would choose it.

You nominated 300 cool stories of scientific surprise for Skunk Bear's Golden Mole Award. Our shortlist has it all: circuits painted with light, imperceptible genitalia, and a terrifying frog.