A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought _ more than 100,000 years ago
Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was either an entitled, corrupt politician who used a charity for poor kids to line her pockets or a befuddled, aging lawmaker whose trusted adviser betrayed her
Delaware state police say a man believed to have shot a state trooper outside a convenience store is now barricaded inside his own house
Colleges and universities are re-examining how to protect free speech while keeping students and employees safe in a time of political polarization
The Archdiocese of Chicago will pay $4.45 million to settle three lawsuits brought by three men who allege they were sexually abused over a decade ago by a former Roman Catholic priest and convicted sex offender
A prosecutor says he will not charge three police officers in South Carolina in the death of a man who was shot 19 times because he was holding a gun that fired at least one shot as he wrestled with an officer
Texas' highest criminal court has refused an appeal from Kimberly Cargill, an East Texas woman on death row for the slaying seven years ago of her developmentally disabled baby sitter
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a 60-year-old Texas inmate condemned for helping a former suburban Houston police officer murder his wife more than 22 years ago
As a union push stalls at Yale University, organizers are stepping up pressure to bring the administration to the negotiating table
The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a drug company's fight to keep a generic version of its biotech drug off the market for an additional six months that would mean billions more in sales and higher costs to the public
Two men once detained at the Jackson County jail in Missouri have filed separate lawsuits saying sewage backed up in their cells and the stench was so intense at times that they could not sleep
A new era of White House oratory is underway, chock full of asides, bravado and simple superlatives
The new MX-5 Miata RF is the closest Mazda has come to a coupe version of its long-selling Miata roadster
A former Iowa fire academy administrator has pleaded guilty to falsifying test scores that were used to improperly certify thousands of firefighters