The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting county fire investigators searching for the cause of Wednesday's massive Maryland apartment building blaze that killed two, officials said.
While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were blatantly violating their own sanitary rules for containing the disease, according to an internal U.N. report that was suppressed for months.
The University of Wisconsin has reached a solution over what should become of two historical paintings deemed potentially "harmful" for showing white settlers and Native Americans canoeing -- move them into rooms where they can be seen by appointment.
A former Marine court-martialed in part for refusing to remove a biblical phrase from her workspace lost her appeal on Wednesday, when a federal court concluded the orders from her superiors did not constitute a "substantial burden" on her First Amendment rights.
Character actor Barry Jenner, best known for his pivotal role as Admiral William Ross on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and with credits including recurring roles on Dallas, Knott’s Landing, Family Mattersand many others, died on August 9, his family has announced.
The man who used large suction cups to climb up the glass facade of Trump Tower in New York City was identified Thursday as 19-year-old Stephen Rogata from the Washington, DC suburb of Great Falls, Virginia, and was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing.
Intelligence reports produced by U.S. Central Command that tracked the Islamic State’s 2014-15 rise in Iraq and Syria were skewed to present a rosier picture of the situation on the ground, according to a bombshell report released Thursday by a House Republican task force.
