Women have been elected to municipal councils in Saudi Arabia for the first time after a ban on women taking part in elections was lifted.

As even casual Star Wars fans will know, lightsabers are probably the coolest weapon ever to make an appearance on the big screen.

For Selina Leem, an 18-year-old from a tiny part of the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific, the adoption of Saturday's "Paris Agreement" on climate change wasn't about wonky diplomacy.

After one year of probation, Norfolk State University's accrediting agency has lifted the sanction.

University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh wants to change the name of the College Park campus' Byrd Stadium, which honors a longtime campus president who opposed integration

Sitting on a shabby green sofa somewhere in the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, Iraq, the militants laugh and joke as one of them films their excited chatter.

After years of allegations of deceptive marketing practices, for-profit Westwood College is no longer accepting new students after another multimillion-dollar settlement with a state attorney general.

A trio of Senate Democrats on Monday sharply rebuked outgoing Education Secretary Arne Duncan for comments in which he downplayed alleged wrongdoing committed by Education Management Corp.

If you want super-fast Wi-Fi in your home, you may want to turn off your Christmas lights.

In the past seven years, Kentucky’s public universities have lost a whopping $173 million in state funding.