Scott Smith

A small contingent of heavily armed soldiers Tuesday backed Juan Guaidó in a bold call for the military to rise up and oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.

If Micah McComas was the cause of his own death, we'll accept his fate. If not, we won't settle for less than justice.

Vast areas of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than in the past as massive amounts of groundwater are pumped during the historic drought, state officials said Wednesday, citing new research by NASA scientists.

A pair of Americans completed what had long been considered the world's most difficult rock climb Wednesday, using only their hands and feet to scale a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the forbidding granite pedestal in Yosemite National Park that has beckoned adventurers for more than half a century.

Federal scientists have found elevated amounts of mercury in fish caught in remote areas of national parks in Alaska and the West, according to a study released Wednesday.