Football coaches at a Seattle high school joined their players in taking a knee during the national anthem, following the lead of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick to protest social injustice.
A Norwegian man freed by militants after a year of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines described the ordeal Sunday as "devastating," carrying a backpack with a bullet hole as a reminder of a near-death experience that included the beheadings of the two Canadians kidnapped with him.
Home favorite Francesco Molinari withstood the pressure in a final-day battle with Danny Willett to claim a second victory at the Italian Open on Sunday.
The office of Shimon Peres says that doctors treating the former Israeli president following a major stroke have decided to lower the level of anesthesia and respiratory support.
ISIS claimed responsibility after a knife-wielding man injured eight people at a mall in central Minnesota Saturday evening, a bloody rampage during which he reportedly asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim and referenced Allah.
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine on Sunday made some of his most personal attacks on Donald Trump -- accusing the Republican presidential nominee of perpetuating a “bigoted lie” about President Obama’s citizenship and inciting violence at campaign rallies.
The Philippine president has acknowledged for the first time that he may not be able to keep his campaign promise to eradicate illegal drugs in three to six months because of the enormity of the problem.
Authorities on Sunday vowed to bring to justice the person responsible for planting an explosive device in a New York City neighborhood, as officials downplayed the possibility of an international terror connection to the fiery Saturday night blast.
Maine state police are reviewing surveillance video and financial records as they investigate the disappearance of a 34-year-old woman who hasn’t been seen in more than two weeks.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that an explosion that rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood, injuring 29 people, doesn't appear to be linked to international terrorism, and he vowed that authorities would find and prosecute whoever was responsible.
It was a historian's idea: carve gigantic sculptures into the granite pinnacles of the Black Hills of South Dakota, significant Western figures like Lewis and Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Fremont, Red Cloud and Sacagawea.
In Gee Chun clinched the Evian Championship in record-breaking style on Sunday, winning by four shots to secure her second major with the lowest ever 72-hole score in a major.
The National Park Service and the nonprofit that runs Washington's Mount Vernon estate are concluding that the rumors were true: In separate exhibits, they show that the first family's family tree has been biracial from its earliest branches.