Ivanka Trump is poised to play an active role in her father's administration, assuming some of the duties normally assigned to the first lady.

Fossil fuel companies hold vast oil, gas and coal reserves that help determine their market value.

Globalisation, long regarded with suspicion by some, is now under full-scale attack.

As University of Wyoming officials look at ways to increase enrollment at the state’s only four-year university, locals asked UW leaders to make it easier for Big Horn Basin residents to earn their degrees closer to home.

A new report from American Academy of Arts and Sciences makes a data-based case for building U.S. capacity for foreign languages.

"The duty to prevent and halt genocide and mass atrocities lies first and foremost with the State, but the international community has a role that cannot be blocked by the invocation of sovereignty."

Retail giant Amazon has made its first delivery using a drone, in the UK.

Beijing's lawmakers are considering listing smog as a meteorological disaster in the drafting of an amendment, but the move has been questioned as smog is not seen as naturally occurring.

Follow the money. It is the motto of investigative journalists everywhere.

New study suggests female economists are less likely to be tenured, compared to male peers, and women are less likely to remain in academe eight years after earning their Ph.D.s.