Piers Sellers, a climate scientist and former astronaut who gained fame late in life for his eloquent commentary about the earth's fragility and his own cancer diagnosis, has died. He was 61.
California's attorney general is pursuing new charges against the operators of a website advertising escort services two weeks after a judge tossed an earlier case.
The announcement that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony hasn't been met with universal applause.
A doctor treating a Washington state police officer who was shot in the head while responding to a call last week says he's making incremental improvements, but it's too soon to say what his prognosis might be.
A Pennsylvania woman has been identified as a person of interest in the disappearance and murder of her 14-year-old daughter after authorities reported finding the girl’s dismembered remains, according to a report.
Federal authorities are warning Americans that Islamic State sympathizers are continuing to call for attacks on churches and other holiday gathering sites.
The Radio City Rockettes will be dancing at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next month, but not everyone is kicking up their heels at the booking.
A prosecutor says a church pastor who has been on the run for nearly two years after he was convicted of sexual assault charges may have tried to obliterate his own fingerprints.
One of two men charged with kidnapping and raping a Kansas sheriff's deputy has been charged with sexual assaulting a Missouri woman in February while the woman's 2-year-old daughter was in the same bed.
India's national security adviser made an low-key visit to Washington earlier this week to meet with a senior aide to President-elect Donald Trump in a sign of New Delhi's desire to forge close ties with the incoming U.S. administration.
A University of Oregon law professor who wore blackface to a Halloween party is harshly criticizing an investigative report by the university that found she violated the institution's anti-discrimination policies and caused damage to the law school, a newspaper reported Friday.
The lawyer for a black woman who's seen on video being wrestled to the ground and arrested by a white officer says the burden is on police to prove the officer's actions weren't racially motivated.