The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the town on behalf of Joseph Tomkins, a resident who said the image of the lighted cross has caused him "irreparable harm."
Survivors, staff and family members of victims who were killed during the Orlando nightclub massacre are gathering outside Pulse to mark the six-month anniversary of the rampage.
Facing uphill battles to find jurors willing to convict police officers, prosecutors in two states say they will try again for guilty verdicts against white officers in the fatal shootings of black men.
2016 is shaping up as another solid year for the new-home market, as a stable job market and low interest rates help spur new-home construction to its highest level since before the Great Recession.
Family, friends and colleagues are gathering in Miami for a memorial service to remember Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general who died last month at age 78.
Immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children are being warned by some advocates to make sure they aren't traveling abroad when Donald Trump is sworn in as president Jan. 20.
Cops arrested a gunman who blasted a state correction officer five times and shot his wife once in the shoulder during a home invasion in Queens last month, police said Friday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has arrived in Baghdad to meet with American commanders and Iraqi leaders and to assess progress in the fight to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group.
Federal homeland security officials should move faster to require rail and transit agencies across the nation screen their employees using federal terrorism watch lists, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said.
The University of Michigan and Google have teamed up to create an app and website aimed at helping Flint residents and officials deal with the lead-contaminated water crisis.
Strong winds and high tides may have contributed to the deaths of more than 60 brown pelicans killed by oncoming traffic along a highway near Texas' border with Mexico.
Members of the public will be given eight hours Friday to pay their respects to John Glenn as the late astronaut-hero lies in state at Ohio's capitol building.