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In Austin, a political nonprofit is employing a model from the tech industry to find and train candidates. It is pitting them against each other to win campaign funding and support.

Pope Francis is wading into the controversial Rohingya crisis with his upcoming trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh. Among those he will visit is Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been heavily criticized for not denouncing Myanmar's military crackdown on the Muslim minority.

Hundreds of organizations and experts are calling for a public health approach to school-based violence.

"Not only does unethical behavior spread, but it mutates into other forms of unethical behavior," says ethics consultant Susan Liautaud.

New zoning rules in Norfolk, Virginia, require developers to include flood prevention measures. Some builders opposed the move, and warn it will raise costs for home buyers.

Neighborhoods around a Louisiana chemical plant have the highest cancer risk in the U.S. Residents felt powerless, until the Environmental Protection Agency released data on what they were breathing.

Researchers looked at the combined effects of air, water and soil pollution on global health to come up with an annual toll.

With this year's destructive wildfires, lawmakers and land managers are looking for new ways to reduce the risk of fire. But the answer, fire ecologists say, may be a hard one to accept.

The partisan split in America is the highest it has been in two decades, with Republicans and Democrats holding disparate views on race, immigration and more, according to a new Pew study.

Transportation authorities say an engineer on the project left them a voicemail saying he saw some cracks. There is no official word on why the bridge came down Thursday, killing at least six people.