Wildfires near the Georgia-North Carolina line are spewing smoke so thick that residents are being urged to wear special masks if they must do outdoor activities.
A Louisiana college student who fabricated a report about being assaulted following Donald Trump's election has been issued a summons for criminal mischief.
Baylor University has explained for the first time how former football coach Art Briles and others responded to a woman's claims that she was gang-raped by five players.
A man suffered non-life-threatening injuries in Portland, Ore. early Saturday when he was shot while taking part in a protest against President-elect Donald Trump.
Chicago police were searching for a group of people who assaulted a motorist this week while bystanders laughed and taunted him about voting for President-elect Donald Trump.
Authorities say a maintenance worker has been crushed to death inside a machine that compresses and melts plastics at a recycling plant in Indianapolis.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo says it's investigating a priest who placed an aborted fetus on his altar and posted a video of it on two social media sites.
Spurred by fear and outrage, protesters around the country rallied and marched Friday as they have done daily since Donald Trump's presidential election victory.
Chicago's police chief agreed Friday to hold monthly meetings with a group of black high school students who had planned a demonstration protesting an officer's fatal shooting of a black man and racist text messages distributed by students at another school.
With teary eyes shaded by a World War II veterans cap, Wallace Higgins accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on Friday for his service more than 70 years ago in the Tuskegee Airmen, the Army Air program that trained African-Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft during the war.