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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is on the verge of becoming the oldest woman in space, adding to her long list of barrier-breaking records. Whitson will celebrate her 57th birthday in February on the International Space Station.
Prince's record company is suing Jay Z's company for copyright infringement, saying that it streamed Prince's songs on the Tidal music service without permission after the superstar's death.
A judge has tentatively rejected pimping charges against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services.
The man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee in Oklahoma City likely killed the victim in retaliation for circumstances that led to the attacker leaving his job with the airline last year, police said Wednesday.
The Texas Board of Education has issued a second call for ethnic studies textbooks for possible statewide use after a similar 2014 request produced just one, heavily criticized book.
Several hundred people in Texas have protested plans by a Dallas-based company to build the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline.
This year is predicted to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel season in nearly a decade. AAA is projecting that 3.9 million Texans will travel 50 miles or more from home for the holiday.
The U.S. Geological Survey says it has discovered in West Texas one of the largest reserves of recoverable oil in the agency's history.
Google is promising that its widely used translation service is now even more fluent, thanks to an advancement that's enabling its computers to interpret complete sentences, not just phrases.
Vasquez worked to capture reactions as people struggled to come to terms with what had happened. His film "Divided Together Again" was released online just last week after the election results.
An activist who was pushed down a flight of stairs during an anti-Donald Trump rally at Ohio State University this week says he hopes the charge against his assailant is dropped.
Pope Francis praised Latino contributions to the country in a message to U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, a week after Donald Trump was elected president and on the day the prelates put a Mexican-born archbishop in line to be their leader.
Cities in North Texas and across the country are enacting more bans on living in vehicles, camping in public and panhandling, despite federal efforts to discourage such laws amid a shortage of affordable housing.
President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his New York skyscraper Tuesday night for the first time in days, moving about the nation's largest city without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts.
Boeing Co. plans to move about 2,500 positions to other sites, cut 500 jobs and close two facilities by the end of 2020 in an effort to make its Defense, Space & Security business more efficient, the company said Tuesday.
