Armed law enforcement officers and soldiers, including some in riot gear, moved in on Thursday to remove Dakota Access pipeline protesters camped on private land in the path of the oil pipeline in North Dakota.
Wildfires are charring hundreds of acres daily in the South as drought conditions worsen across the region, and the heavy, widespread rains that officials say are needed to end the threat are nowhere in sight.
U.S. airstrikes this week in eastern Afghanistan killed several al-Qaida militants, including two Arabs and four Pakistanis, Afghan officials said Thursday, but added that authorities cannot definitively identify the slain militants because of the area's inaccessibility and remoteness.
A jury in the trial of a Texas man accused of murdering his ex-fiancee heard a 2013 audio recording of the woman claiming he'd drugged her before raping her.
A Texas grand jury has indicted a 23-year-old man in the death of his wife who was found decapitated hours after officers visited the couple on a welfare check.
The videotaped statements of two Baltimore officers charged in the death of a young man whose neck was broken in the back of a police van have been released publicly for the first time.
Turkey's justice minister is reiterating demands that the United States extradite a Muslim cleric it accuses of orchestrating the July failed coup attempt.
Tufts University, like a number of colleges nationwide, is cracking down on offensive costumes. But not content to ruin only one aspect of Halloween, leaders of the Tufts Greek community also announced that, barring express written privilege, Halloween sex is also (mostly) outlawed.
The boyfriend of a woman who vanished in West Texas earlier this month is now officially a suspect in her disappearance, police announced as they shifted the search area closer to the Mexico border.
More colleges around the country are launching “inclusive language” campaigns that encourage students to avoid everyday words and phrases that could possibly offend someone, somewhere—”hey guys,” “mankind” and “man-made” are just a few of the terms now frowned upon.
A black mother in Mississippi says her 15-year-old son was shaking in fear when he described white schoolmates putting a noose around his neck and pulling it tight.
A Honduran man on death row for a double murder in central Florida has been granted a retrial based on new evidence, including comments a woman made to a friend and neighbors that she's the actual killer.
Defense attorneys rushing to stop Ohio's first execution in three years say the state's new lethal injection system is akin to burning inmates at the stake or burying them alive.
Six months after a massacre that left eight family members dead in Pike County, Ohio, two of their surviving relatives spoke out about the shooting, denying they were the targets of an angry Mexican drug cartel.
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