A man who admitted to shooting former NFL running back Joe McKnight in a road rage incident has been released from custody without charges, authorities in Louisiana said Friday afternoon.
A couple from Minnesota has re-imagined the classic Christmas song "Baby It's Cold Outside" for a 21st-century audience, changing the song's lyrics to emphasize the importance of consent.
Nearly 600 patients who received dental care at a Wisconsin Veterans Affairs medical center may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and C and now face an anxious wait to find out if they were infected.
At the first stop on a victory tour that evoked his chaotic campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said, "We are going to appoint Mad Dog Mattis as our secretary of defense." The studious retired Marine Gen. James Mattis has other nicknames, including "Warrior Monk." But Trump learned much of what he knows about leadership at military school, and "Mad Dog" sounded just right to a man who was taught that life is all about determining where you fit into the pack.
The number of people killed as a direct or indirect result of this week's wildfires in eastern Tennessee has risen to 13, though emergency crews still have more areas to check, officials said Friday.
Four weeks after the election, tensions between top operatives at the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns erupted during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics discussion that was intended to record history by drawing out the internal deliberations of both campaigns.
As the harsh North Dakota winter approaches and protests grow even more tense, the Standing Rock Sioux and their supporters are rising to crescendo in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The billionaire CEO building the Dakota Access Pipeline will continue to hold a music festival bearing the name Cherokee, a Native American tribe. But there's a problem: Some artists are refusing to perform.
Mo Amer, an Arab American stand-up comedian, received an unbelievable gift of comic material when he found himself seated next to Eric Trump on a flight to Scotland on Thursday.
