French police detained three women believed to be planning an imminent terror attack in an operation south of Paris Thursday evening, the country's interior minister said.
Police video shows a Nevada homicide suspect wearing a football jersey handcuffed to a table in a police interview room twisting his body to muscle the hinge of handcuffs attaching his right wrist to one of the table's metal bars.
Students at Oklahoma University have taken to Twitter to share what they are describing as incidents of discrimination and harassment and draw attention to the university’s failed efforts to promote diversity and inclusion.
U.S. defense officials say that special operations forces launched a rescue mission to retrieve two men kidnapped by insurgents in Afghanistan last month.
The FBI and CIA directors say that despite the group's loss of territory, Islamic State militants will continue to pose serious national security problems for the United States and Europe.
The circumstances of the fatal shooting of a woman while talking to a 911 operator to report being chased on a Phoenix freeway don't point to random violence or a traffic dispute, police said Thursday as they appealed to the public for information.
The Obama administration has gotten one step closer to shuttering the Guantanamo Bay detention center, closing down a 100-cell maximum-security prison and moving to reduce the U.S. presence there.
George Washington High School in San Francisco may soon get another name, if San Francisco Board of Education president Matt Haney has anything to say about it.
Atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that's already linked to an increased risk of stroke, may also be tied to higher risk of heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease and sudden death, according to a new research review.
A Marine recruit committed suicide in March amid a widespread culture of hazing and abuse in his battalion at Parris Island that could lead to punishments for as many as 20 officers and enlisted leaders, the Marine Corps said Thursday.
Judge Merrick Garland found himself back on Capitol Hill on Thursday in a familiar place -- meeting with a Democratic senator who complained about Republicans' inaction on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
A prison warden in Ecuador is in hot water after it was discovered that security guards were marking visitors to the penitentiary with hand stamps featuring the Nazi swastika.
Federal prosecutors will not pursue another case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell or his wife after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his corruption conviction last month, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said Thursday.