U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns in Boston granted a preliminary injunction sought by 20 Democratic-led states as their ...

A thing takes place, and it goes into the history books. But whether something even gets remembered and how is often far from simple.

The Justice Department has identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. The release of the list Tuesday came two months after the federal government qu ...

A Purdue University student from South Korea has been freed from federal detention following days of protests by faith leaders in New York and abroad. Twenty-year-old Yeonsoo Go was taken ...

Several Arkansas death row inmates have sued the state to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, challenges the measure signed earlier this year ...

A Waco officer shot at a man Monday night who later said his gun jammed when he aimed at police and pulled the trigger, ...

Montana's governor has signed an executive order freeing up more resources for law enforcement officers as they search for a ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons.

Public health officials in Florida are reporting 21 cases of campylobacter and E. coli infections linked to drinking raw milk ...

The word “gerrymander" was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering means of describing political ...

NFL careers are notoriously short. Yet the young man's league still has some space for the most seasoned players.

More than 800 structures are being threatened by a massive wildfire burning through Los Padres National Forest in central ...