U.S. defense officials say that special operations forces launched a rescue mission to retrieve two men kidnapped by insurgents in Afghanistan last month.
The FBI and CIA directors say that despite the group's loss of territory, Islamic State militants will continue to pose serious national security problems for the United States and Europe.
The circumstances of the fatal shooting of a woman while talking to a 911 operator to report being chased on a Phoenix freeway don't point to random violence or a traffic dispute, police said Thursday as they appealed to the public for information.
George Washington High School in San Francisco may soon get another name, if San Francisco Board of Education president Matt Haney has anything to say about it.
A Florida man who piloted a one-person gyrocopter through some of the most restricted U.S. airspace and landed on the lawn of the Capitol in Washington has been released from jail after serving three months of a four-month sentence.
Eric Cheeley, a devout Pentecostal Christian who sued the city of Miami for religious discrimination after he was fired from the capital improvements department for anointing the office with oily crosses because he wanted to "just bless the department" had his claim denied by a federal judge last month.
A Marine recruit committed suicide in March amid a widespread culture of hazing and abuse in his battalion at Parris Island that could lead to punishments for as many as 20 officers and enlisted leaders, the Marine Corps said Thursday.
One of several people accused of running a western Colorado outfitting business that captured and maimed mountain lions and bobcats to make hunting easier for clients has been sentenced to three months in federal prison.
More than 400 inmates barricaded themselves inside a Florida prison Wednesday night, requiring corrections officers from five other prisons to help put down the riot, The Miami Herald reported.