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In a bid to shore up sagging numbers, the Peace Corps on Tuesday announced significant changes to its application process.

Discrimination against female workers who might get pregnant in the future, or have been pregnant in the past, is against the law, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said this week.

At least a dozen people were killed as the Philippines was battered by its first typhoon of the season on Wednesday. Since the storm passed through major population centers, officials were relieved that the death toll wasn’t higher.

Apple announced on Tuesday a deal with the company it once painted as Big Brother in its infamous 1984 ad: IBM.

The Mighty Thor, the Son of Odin, the God of Thunder, the comic book god with the hammer is a woman.

Less than a day after a cease-fire seemed possible, Israel warned tens of thousands of Gaza residents to leave their homes ahead of fresh strikes. Those who received the warning were given until 8 a.m. local time Wednesday to leave.

On May 27, firefighters stumbled across something unexpected – a den full of wolf cubs on the fire line, five living and one dead.

More than 50 people gathered in the Government Hill neighborhood to protest the demolition of two homes. The state is clearing the land to make way for the proposed but not yet funded Knik Arm Bridge.

Canada’s Coast Guard is suffering from crossed wires at their only manned field station in the Arctic.