Almost a month after deciding that the 2017 NBA All-Star Game would be moved out of Charlotte, North Carolina, due to the state's controversial transgender bathroom law, the league announced Friday that the game will be relocated to New Orleans.
Donald Trump publicly expressed regret Thursday, making his most direct admission as a presidential candidate in saying that "sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing."
The catastrophic flood devastating Louisiana is now the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy four years ago, the Red Cross said.
The Obama administration expects to mark a major milestone in the coming weeks, admitting more than 10,000 Syrian refugees into the US within 2016 Fiscal Year, a State Department official told CNN Friday.
The US used a plane filled with $400 million in cash intended for Iran as "leverage" to ensure that American prisoners were released by Tehran, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.
Florida Department of Health Investigators said Thursday that there are two new non-travel-related cases of the Zika virus in their state, bringing the total number of non-travel-related cases to 35.
Sylville Smith and the Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot him had crossed paths before a lethal encounter that led to days of unrest, according to Smith's relatives and friends.
There were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death, in Huntington, West Virginia, on Monday. Officials believe the drug may be laced with something to make it particularly dangerous.
