Despite inherent competitive disadvantages, the post office could still be a crucial community cog, offering financial products and more to the underserved.

The United States has become less neighborly. We interact with people in our community less, and find our connections in increasingly widespread places.

The world is now using more sand each year than is naturally created by erosion. Sand prices are soaring and international trade is booming, putting fragile environments at risk.

Millionaires long to be billionaires. No matter how much wealth people accumulate, they'll always want more.

3 million people have already fled a crashing economy and political repression in Venezuela, and if the situation does not improve, millions more could follow.

The top 10 new species of 2018 includes an extinct omnivorous marsupial lion, the deepest ocean fish ever found, and a rare great ape.

The Danes say they are happy, but are they really masking a profound inferiority complex?

A new report shows the Department of Defense "plugs" accounting holes with made up numbers and fails to track its $700 billion annual budget.

A new assessment from more than a dozen U.S. agencies bluntly details the future consequences awaiting the country if carbon emissions are not reduced.

A researcher in China has announced, with little proof, that he has produced the first genetically-modified human babies.

Two-pound bricks of whale ear wax contain historical records of how people have stressed out whales through the decades.

Prime Minister Theresa May is on her way to Brussels to save an increasingly unpopular deal.