Authorities in Massachusetts discovered hundreds of dead and injured animals, makeshift cabins, burning trash and illegal stoves on a 70-acre property Tuesday.
The U.S. Justice Department is suing a suburban Philadelphia town, alleging its denial of a permit for a mosque in 2014 constituted religious discrimination.
Some young Indiana Joneses in the making have dug up an ancient artifact dating back thousands of years while attending a summer camp at a New York college.
Patrol car video publicly released Thursday shows a white Austin, Texas, police officer violently throwing a black woman to the ground during a traffic stop, followed by another white officer telling her black people have "violent tendencies" and whites are justifiably afraid.
A Chicago police officer was expected to survive after being shot in the leg Thursday night by a man who was killed when officers returned fire, police said.
The Pentagon has revised its Law of War guidelines to remove wording that could permit U.S. military commanders to treat war correspondents as "unprivileged belligerents" if they think the journalists are sympathizing or cooperating with enemy forces.
Declaring America in crisis, Donald Trump pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters Thursday night that as president he will restore the safety they fear they're losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from Hillary Clinton's record of "death, destruction, terrorism and weakness." Confidently addressing the finale of his party's less-than-smooth national convention, the billionaire businessman declared the nation's problems too staggering to be fixed within the confines of traditional politics.
Betsy Bloomingdale, the widow of a department store heir who hobnobbed with the world's elite and was best friends with former first lady Nancy Reagan, has died.
Documents show that a Minnesota police officer and a black motorist he shot to death during a traffic stop may have interacted in a previous stop more than four years earlier.
The mother of a 24-year-old Colorado man who joined Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State group says her son was killed in combat in Syria.
A patrol car video shows a white Texas police officer violently throwing a black woman to the ground followed by another officer suggesting to her that black people have "violent tendencies." The traffic stop for speeding happened in Austin last summer, but the video wasn't publicly released until Thursday.
Authorities say a plane set to fly from West Palm Beach to Philadelphia with 138 people aboard had to be evacuated after a report of a possible hydraulic fuel leak.