Advocates say a Georgia lawmaker appears to target Muslim women with proposed changes to a 1951 state law passed to stop the Ku Klux Klan from wearing masks at public rallies.
Four members of a Washington state family missing since Tuesday have been found walking near a store about 55 miles southwest of Seattle, authorities said Thursday.
Authorities charged two suspects on Thursday with the murder of a Connecticut man who was killed after partying at a luxury Manhattan apartment being paid for by a celebrity jeweler.
Days before he allegedly killed two Iowa police officers, Scott Michael Greene sent a note to one of their departments praising officers for their service and calling them "absolute heroes." In an online compliment form addressed to the "many officers" of the Urbandale Police Department, Greene wrote on Oct. 29 that he loved them for keeping the community safe.
Families of nine black worshippers killed in a Charleston church got a chance Thursday to air concerns about the case to a federal judge, who reaffirmed his decision to keep defendant Dylann Roof's competency hearing next week closed to the public.
The Afghan-born man charged with setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York spoke with the FBI for days after his arrest, a prosecutor revealed Thursday as the suspect faced a judge.
A U.S. government official says authorities have started releasing Haitian immigrants who have been entering the country in large numbers in recent months.
A 24-year-old Ukrainian man who faked his name and age to attend a Pennsylvania high school has been ordered to spend two months in prison on federal fraud charges.
Authorities on Thursday were investigating the cause of a gas explosion that rocked downtown homes and businesses in a central Illinois community, shattering glass and cracking interior walls in nearby buildings and killing one person and injuring several others.
A 63-year-old woman mauled by a black bear in Maryland's first such attack in decades tried to fight off the animal before deciding it would be safer to lie still, her husband said Thursday at the hospital where she's recovering.
Teddy bears, Play-Doh and coloring books are staples of nursery schools, but now they are turning up on college campuses to help distraught students cope with the election of a president they don’t like.
A Wisconsin prison inmate whose case was featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" will stay behind bars while state attorneys appeal a decision overturning his conviction, a panel of federal appellate judges ruled Thursday.
The Cincinnati Zoo's barrier to keep visitors and gorillas separate did not meet federal standards the day a 3-year-old boy fell into the exhibit, a USDA inspection report shows.
American Jews gathered Thursday to wrestle with how they should confront an election-year surge in anti-Semitism, a level of bias not seen in the U.S. for decades.