A second child, who was unvaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, died from measles in Texas on April 3.

This month, state officials voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in ...

States that voted for the Democratic Party in November's election had a higher total tax burden on average than the states that voted for the Republican Party.

On a small island in the Aleutians, some place names from World War II are reminders of the hate and racism of that time. An ...

Newsweek has created a map showing where in the U.S. cases of Candida auris have been reported. What Is Candida Auris?

The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 378 people in 18 states have been diagnosed with ...

The Alaska commuter ... vanished from the map. The wreckage was found the following day, Feb. 7, on sea ice off Alaska’s coast. It was the third major plane crash in the US in just over a ...

The Anna's hummingbird and the Black-chinned hummingbird are among the species spotted throughout California recently.

(THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali ... there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that process is ...

President Donald Trump is being mocked by social media users after he referred to the European Union as a country in a post ...

The United States is in the midst ... re-renamed Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park, we are witnessing a ...

Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening ... There is no data from 2007 for Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming because ...