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Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday announced sweeping changes to a federal civil asset forfeiture program that local law enforcement agencies have been able to use to seize property.

The Environmental Protection Agency, on the heels of the controversy at the IRS over missing emails, is facing a probe of its own over whether it improperly scrubbed text messages.

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to review cases from four different states, all in the Sixth Circuit, that, in different ways, pose the question of whether same-sex couples have a Constitutional right to marry--an is...

It was a Florida prison inmate's escape that led investigators down a rabbit hole of sin involving a corrections officer and two strippers the sheriff says brokered deals for malt liquor, cigarettes and "conjugal visits ...

Police say two teenage sweethearts have blazed a trail of crime across the South, leaving in their path a string of stolen vehicles and pilfered checks and stirring concern about their increasingly bold behavior.

Saudi Arabia delayed a second round of caning against a writer jailed for criticizing the religious establishment after a video of the first round appeared online and drew international condemnation.

PARIS/VERVIERS, Belgium

The U.S. said it "strongly" disagreed with the decision by International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to begin an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Washington would continue to ...

The mission, to take place in Saudi Arabia, will include about 400 soldiers and hundreds of others to provide logistics, communications and other support.

Grant scores 23, No. 12 Notre Dame rallies from 12-point in 2nd half, beats Miami 75-70

To follow the Cavaliers as they clashed with the Clippers and the Lakers in the past week was to observe a near perfect cosmology of talent, ego and insecurity, rumor and anxiety.

Sahira Sadiq recalls her teenage son reading an online article after the Paris terrorist attacks and asking about a verse in the Quran with several interpretations, some of them troubling.

Pope Francis arrives in Tacloban in central Philippines and praises the resilience of survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.

What Justices Kennedy, Alito, Scalia, Ginsburg and Chief Justice Roberts have said or written about the issue

Cosby's lawyer says comedian wasn't at Playboy Mansion at time model claims she was abused

In 2009, Arloa Sutter, executive director of East Garfield Park's Breakthrough Urban Ministries, sat down with 10 neighborhood gang members.

One of suspects may be linked to a jihadi cell in Belgium

Said Kouachi buried in Reims, despite apprehensions of local mayor his grave could become a shrine for "extremists".

The Islamic State freed about 350 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority on Saturday, delivering them to safety in the country's northern Kurdish region.

Christine C. Quinn made her first appearance in her new role at a news conference on Saturday.

Jim Clancy, who was at the cable news network for more than 30 years, left after controversy flared around a series of Twitter posts he made.

A 23-year-old man was pronounced dead after being shot on the West Side Saturday, police said.