A comparison of the Federal Reserve's statements from its two-day meeting that ended Wednesday and its meeting Nov. 1-2: RATE HIKE: Now: "In view of realized and expected labor market conditions and inflation, the (Fed) decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 1/2 to 3/4 percent.
It's the one story everyone wants to be a hoax. A Tennessee newspaper that reported a boy died on Santa's lap -- complete with a heart-wrenching account of his final words -- said Wednesday it can no longer vouch for the veracity of the depressingly Dickensian Christmas story.
Newtown held a moment of silence and flags were flying at half-staff across Connecticut to mark the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
A man that ran from a vehicle during a traffic stop by deputies with the Washington County, Ore., Sheriff’s Office had to be rescued by the deputies after he tried hiding in thick brush after wading through a creek.
A woman who wants to show that there is good in the world says strangers from Georgia and Florida are rallying around her to help her complete a 600-mile journey from Savannah to Miami.
A man accused of hitting a protester at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina has received a 30-day suspended sentence and 12 months of unsupervised probation.
When Omar Mateen claimed to have explosives during the Pulse nightclub shooting rampage in June, two bomb-sniffing dogs got a "positive hit" on his vehicle outside the gay bar.
Lawyers for Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church during a Bible study last year, rested their case without calling any witnesses Wednesday after a judge ruled they could not present evidence about his mental health.
The mother of a 20-month-old girl who disappeared five years ago while at her father's house in Maine plans to take steps to obtain a legal declaration that the child is dead.
The state of Georgia is asking President-elect Donald Trump to investigate what Georgia says are "failed cyberattacks" on its secretary of state's network that it traced to the federal Homeland Security Department.