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Democrats have been declared the winners in several House races since Election Day, increasing the total number of GOP seats that flipped.

In the coming week, Episcopalians in the United States will once again debate the role of gays and lesbians in their church. Delegates are gathering for the denomination's general convention in Columbus, Ohio. They'll vote on whether to sanction same-sex unions and whether to apologize for electing an openly gay bishop. Jason de Rose of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Seven Russian sailors remain trapped in a mini-submarine below the Pacific Ocean. Planes carrying robotic undersea vehicles from the United States and Great Britain landed in Russia's Far East on Saturday to aid in the rescue.

In Massachusetts, heat in the winter is a public health necessity. Now with summer temperatures climbing, some public health experts say cooling aid is becoming a health priority too.

Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday of complications from congestive heart failure. She was 79. Taylor was English by birth and became an American movie star after she was discovered by a talent scout at age 9. In her later years, Taylor put considerable energy and money into the fight to find a cure for AIDS.

Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.

The nation as a whole fell short of President Biden's July Fourth vaccine goal — giving at least one shot to 70 percent of adults. Some states exceeded expectations, and others didn't come close.

Nothing could have prepared Martha Phillips for her work with Ebola patients in West Africa. Now she is sharing advice with nurses in the U.S. as they tend to those stricken with COVID-19.

Skyrocketing omicron case numbers in some states have hospitals nationwide trying to prepare for another big surge. Here's how things look in the Northeast, South and Midwest.

Ten years ago, these first responders were strangers. Thrown together to save lives at the finish of the Boston Marathon, they became a family.