South of the border, Grupo Beta is seen as a humanitarian organization that steers north-bound migrants through the crossfire of warring drug cartels. But in Texas, many view it as part of a pipeline that sends humans and drugs pouring into the U.S., all with the funding and backing of the Mexican government.
California's acting governor declared a state of emergency Tuesday for two major wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes and killed one person in the Los Angeles area.
A dump truck driver deliberately smashed his truck through a security gate of the FBI's offices on Tuesday, injuring himself but no one else, but there appeared to be no connection to terrorism, an agency spokesman said.
Two attackers reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" before slitting the throat of an 85-year-old priest and critically injuring at least one other person during a Tuesday morning terror attack on a church near the Normandy city of Rouen, officials said.
After Bernie Sanders doubled down on his endorsement of Hillary Clinton Monday, many of his supporters remain politically homeless and in no mood to back the presumptive Democratic nominee -- a situation Donald Trump is keen to exploit.
Just two days after an email scandal forced her resignation as head of the Democratic Party, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz could be on her own in a suddenly tough re-election battle, as fellow House Democrats turn their back — and withhold their money — while contributions pour in for her primary opponent.
The Democrat National Convention seems to be mirroring for the American people exactly the kind of disarray and contempt for truth, laws, and order that progressive policies will continue wreak on the country, if given the chance to lead.
Brown University officials say an alumni’s short film on censorship at the Ivy League school deserves a failing grade, but the man behind the camera says students and faculty have told him it is “spot on.”
Tens of thousands of politicians, delegates, reporters and political junkies who have come to this sprawling East Coast city -- amid a relentless heat wave -- to attend the Democratic National Convention are being greeted with traffic gridlock, subway snafus and venues without food or water and piled high with trash.
