Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has been ordered to serve as a public defender by the State Public Defender's office, which cites a budget crisis in tapping a rarely used state statute that allows the office to draft any state bar member.
Early this year, an unmarked airplane flew to Iran, its belly filled with a most unusual load: mountains of cash. U.S. officials had gone to great lengths to collect $400 million and then ship it, stacked high on cargo pallets, as payment to the Iranian government. At almost exactly the same time, Iranian security operatives released four American prisoners, including The Washington Post's Jason Rezaian.
President Barack Obama's approval rating got its own convention bump, and now stands at its highest level since just before his second inauguration in 2013.
CNN announced Wednesday it will host one of its town hall events with the Green Party's presumptive presidential nominee Jill Stein and her presumptive running mate, Ajamu Baraka.
Hillary Clinton holds commanding leads over Donald Trump in a trio of states that the GOP nominee has made central to his White House bid, according to polls released Thursday following both party's national conventions last month, and has maintained an advantage in the ever-important swing state Florida.
The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.
How did the diminutive son of a Mexican farming family end up becoming one of the most notorious and powerful drug lords in the world? The story of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's life often inspires legend, in part because of one maddening truth: He simply wouldn't stay caught. Follow the kingpin's life, from his beginnings in Sinaloa to his current incarceration in a high-security prison.
The city of Orlando is discussing with the owners of the Pulse nightclub the possibility of buying the property and turning the site of the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. history into a memorial, spokeswomen for both parties said Wednesday.
The man known as the "Barefoot Bandit, who gained a large Facebook following and snagged a movie deal after a fugitive crime spree across nine states and three countries, is about to be released from state prison, his attorney said Wednesday.
It's 2016. A woman is running for president, athletes like Serena Williams are household names and pop culture is replete with feminist heroines our foremothers could only dream of.
Almonds, pistachios and other high-value nuts are an appealing commodity for not only health nuts, but also more recently to highly sophisticated criminal organizations in the San Joaquin valley.
A bus nearly split in half after plowing into a sign pole on a California highway, killing five people aboard and closing the road for hours as authorities investigated the deadly crash.
