The embezzlement trial of the founder of a Rhode Island-based international sport institute is expected to resume after he was released from a hospital.
Three of four wolves fitted with tracking collars in a central Idaho wilderness area last year by state officials without federal approval are surviving as another winter approaches.
The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation of a fire that heavily damaged a black church in Mississippi where someone wrote "Vote Trump" in silver spray paint.
At least one of the pilots of two U.S. Marine helicopters that collided midair off Hawaii in January was not fully qualified to fly, an investigation revealed Wednesday.
A new report on Americans' attitudes toward socialism says that statements of Karl Marx have more support among millennial than what the Bible says about work and people's right to eat.
A woman jailed on charges she killed her toddler son sent a video of the boy's apparently lifeless body to his father in a jealous, vengeful rage during a text-messaged argument that lasted more than two hours, police said in a criminal complaint.
A Southern California woman accused of killing her 7-month old baby by pushing him from the fourth floor of a hospital parking structure has been found mentally fit to stand trial.
A comparison of the Federal Reserve's statements from its two-day meeting that ended Wednesday and its meeting Sept. 20-21: RATE HIKE TIMING: Now: The Fed now simply needs just "some" additional evidence that the economy is improving: The Fed "judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has continued to strengthen but decided, for the time being, to wait for some further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives." Then: The Fed "judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened but decided, for the time being, to wait for further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives." INFLATION: October: The statement removed a reference to inflation "remaining low," a sign that Fed policymakers see inflation firming: "Inflation is expected to rise to 2 percent over the medium term as the transitory effects of past declines in energy and import prices dissipate and the labor market strengthens further." September: "Inflation is expected to remain low in the near term, in part because of earlier declines in energy prices, but to rise to 2 percent over the medium term as the transitory effects of past declines in energy and import prices dissipate and the labor market strengthens further."
A Pennsylvania judge is facing accusations that he traded racy text messages and had sex with the girlfriend of a defendant in his drug and alcohol treatment court.
The Pentagon says a U.S. airstrike in Syria this month killed what the Defense Department describes as a senior Al Qaeda leader who once had ties to Usama bin Laden.
An Iranian airline, backed by the country's notorious Revolutionary Guard and used to ferry weapons and fighters to support Syria's government, has acquired rights to fly commercial routes in more than a dozen European and Asian countries in spite of U.S. terror-related sanctions.
Authorities in Iowa have captured the suspected gunman in the ambush-style attacks early Wednesday morning that claimed the lives of two police officers who were sitting in their patrol cars.