The government is toughening its offensive against gangs after emerging from its deadliest month in a decade.
The penalty phase of the convicted Boston Marathon bomber's capital murder trial began Tuesday, and the jury must decide whether to sentence the 21-year-old to life in prison or execution.
It's illegal to possess assault weapons like the AR-15 in D.C., but it's unclear whether the congressmen will face charges.
The timing of the move, just weeks before Goodluck Jonathan leaves office, raises a lot of questions.
Women receive an invitation to participate in the ball. "They are chosen for just being outstanding girls in their school, their church, athletics," the organizer said.
As many as 900 people may have died on Sunday off Libya's coast when their packed boat capsized as they were trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is also expected to sign a bill that would require abortion clinics to comply with more regulations.
The U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is just one of many warships converging on the world's newest flashpoint.
Billions of dollars in hospital funding are at stake for Texas.
The Republican presidential hopeful tries not to laugh while answering, "Is Marco Rubio a twin?"
Orlando Castaneda-Diaz faces charges of making a false claim to United States citizenship.
“A police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote.
The GOP is trying to paint Hillary Clinton as secretive and above the rules, backed by a new book: "Clinton Cash."
Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died from a spinal cord injury a week after briefly spending time in police custody.
The strange disease was traced back to youth in a small community in western Nigeria who consumed local gin, "ogogoro," mixed with herbs.
The money is for "development financing," but President Nicolás Maduro offered no other details on conditions for the funds.
China's biggest car show is a window on sexism in the country, and on efforts to move beyond it.
The legislation prevents employers from firing workers who use birth control or have in vitro fertilization.
Comcast could propose additional conditions for its merger with Time Warner Cable, or it could simply walk away.
The deal on the funding the human trafficking law ensure proper resources are available to victims, while existing abortion restrictions remained in place.
If the trend continues, fatalities this year will soon exceed those for all of last year, the International Organization for Migration fears.
The arrest of a man who later died of a spinal injury was described as "straightforward, with no undue force required to detain him."
The defense is expected to play up the role of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's older brother in the deadly 2013 bombing.
Congress is unlikely to move quickly to codify, or make permanent, last year's decision not to prosecute medical marijuana businesses.
A hundred years after the Armenian genocide, Turkey is restoring some Armenian antiquities — but deleting the memory of what happened.
The law's popularity is at an all-time high since November 2012.
The Armata T-14 is part of a costly plan to revamp Russia's military.
"I think that in the present situation, there shouldn’t be anyone stepping out directly against Ukraine and Ukrainianness,” the official said.
Justice Department officials say the first African-American president isn't using his financial muscle to protect jailed minority youths.
A Christian town in Lebanon has taken up arms against the Islamic State — with help from a very unlikely source.