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Two missing Amish girls in northern New York was found alive tonight and the Amber Alert for them was cancelled.

Thousands of people gathered across the nation Thursday night for candlelight vigils to remember Michael Brown and others killed in confrontations with police in the wake of unrest over allegations of growing police brut...

The onlookers yell out at police and talk passionately with each other, their anger mixed with disbelief. At one point, a siren breaks through the murmurs and the shouts.

Williams committed suicide Monday

Thousands of Israelis gather in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square Thursday to support residents of southern Israel. The region is a frequent target of rockets launched by militants in Gaza. Many wave signs and banners in support o...

Eric Garner died on July 17 after a policeman put him in an apparent chokehold

Could face death by firing squad

After boisterous welcome from 50,000 people in football stadium, Pope Francis tells crowd to beware of materialism.

Missouri state troopers took over security in the town of Ferguson, Missouri, today and the commander of those state officers joined protesters in the evening as they marched again to demonstrate against the police shoot...

For one California man, what began as a fishing trip quickly turned into a five day fight for survival.

The Islamic State terror group is now "a credible alternative to al Qaeda" that is "expanding its presence" with foreign fighters returning from Syria, and possibly Iraq, to their home countries, a U.S. intelligence offi...

Craig Ferguson is in final negotiations with Tribune Media to host a daily syndicated half-hour talkshow that would air in the 7 p.m. hour across the Tribune station group.

An 809-pound tiger shark caught in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month has been cooked and served to more than 90 poor and homeless Texans.

The tavern was initially issued a violation for allegedly failing to take "reasonable and diligent" efforts to ensure that illegal activity did not occur on the premises.

Ryan Hathaway was sentenced to two years in prison and five years of supervised release after failing to register as a sex offender.

Officials say a former Tufts Health Care employee pleaded guilty to charges he sold the info to a man engaged in an identity theft scheme.

(Reuters) - Lawyers for former Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Thursday filed a formal appeal of the sweeping 2013 racketeering conviction on charges of committing or ordering 11 murders in the 1970s and 1980s. T...

Two Amish sisters were abducted from their roadside farm stand near New York's border with Canada and a massive hunt to find them was under way on Thursday, the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office said.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday (August 14) that the Islamist militant siege of Iraq's Mount Sinjar had been broken and most of the U.S. military personnel sent to assess the situation would be pulled out of...

Caught off guard by the militants, Iraqi Kurdish fighters were forced to retreat

Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, plans to introduce legislation that aims to add accountability and limit the kind of equipment that police departments could acquire from the military.

New emails from law enforcement officials may undercut the New York Post's defense in its Boston Marathon bombing defamation case