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President Obama held a four-and-a-half hour meeting on Wednesday inviting civil rights advocates and law enforcement to offer solutions to mend their relations. In the midst of national tension surrounding the death of t...

Two people are dead and one is wounded after a shooting in St. Louis, and a responding city police officer suffered a graze wound

Quittle Williams stood near a baby stroller as she surveyed the crowd who had gathered outside the Boston police headquarters Wednesday night. She was surrounded by more than a thousand others, but she was thinking of on...

Evan Mawarire had charges against him ruled unconstitutional

Pulse owner Barbara Poma described it as a "bittersweet day"

A simple jab of the finger is all it takes for a prince of England to bring attention to the fight against HIV.

The first time Rosa Mina Joseph met Julio Cesar Posse he was hanging out in civilian clothes on the beach in her hometown in southern Haiti, where he was stationed as a member of a U.N. peacekeeping force. …

Ineffectual attacks by the Islamic State group's followers in Southeast Asia have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in the expertise that has produced devastating death tolls elsewhere in the world

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday traveled to Springfield, Ill., where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famed "House Divided" speech about the perils of slavery, and said Donald Trump is tearing the Republican Party and the nati...

It hasn't happened in about 200 years

America is reeling after a heart-wrenching Independence Day week.

Authorities in Romania have formally detained 38 people on suspicion they took dozens of vulnerable men and boys as slaves, kidnapped them and chained them up, and forced them to work or fight each other for entertainmen...

Feeding alligators is illegal

Poland's education minister in the conservative government has sparked criticism for remarks she made about Polish responsibility for two massacres of Jews in the 1940s. …

The book will include both his policy ideas and reflections on his primary run

It was not that long ago that entire neighborhoods in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou were overflowing with African migrants. Although there are no precise figures, scholars estimated that more than 20,000 African...

"Our children are watching," the ad tells viewers. "What example will we set for them?"

Deaths reported after suspect grabs gun and shoots officers at Kapenguria police station in western Kenya.

Utah lawmakers have voted to allow authorities to disable or damage unauthorized drones near wildfires after at least one has plagued firefighters in the southern part of the state

Pakistani Taliban leader Umar Narai, wanted for the 2014 Peshawar massacre, has died in Afghanistan, officials say.

Fresno police released body-camera video of officers fatally shooting a 19-year-old man, and it shows the man ignored repeated commands to stand still and show his hands

The Republican National Convention will feature appearances from nearly every member of the Trump family, several of Trump's former rivals, sports stars, and billionaires, The New York Times reports. The Times obtained a...