Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep is asking Congress to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, which the states failed to ratify in the 1970s. The famous actress on Tuesday sent letters to the nation's 535 lawmakers, which came attached to copies of "Equal Means Equal," a book by ERA Coalition President Jessica Neuwirth.
Colombian army officers who concealed civilian casualties as guerrilla combat deaths in an effort to inflate body counts that led to promotions and bonuses today are escaping punishment for their roles in what the Associated Press called "one of Latin America's worst atrocities."
A California man's proposed ballot measure that called for the killing of gay people is "patently unconstitutional," and the state's attorney general is not required to "waste public resources" to process the initiative, a Sacramento County Superior Court ruled on Monday.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is expected to join the increasingly crowded field of Republican White House contenders and officialize his 2016 bid on Wednesday, the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported. His decision has been "months - if not years - in the making," the newspaper commented.
The Venezuelan election authority has set the South American country's parliamentary election for Dec. 6. The move comes after opponents of embattled President Nicolás Maduro had demanded for months that the purportedly independent National Electoral Council determine a date for the vote.
A Colorado teen who thought he had come down with the flu but then died within a few days apparently had been infected with the plague, likely by fleas that put the bacteria directly into his bloodstream.
James Horner, the Hollywood orchestrator who composed the scores of "Titanic," "Avatar," Star Trek's "The Wrath of Khan" and dozens of other movies, died on Monday when his single-engine plane crashed in Southern California.
The Republican speaker of Mississippi's House of Representatives on Monday called for the Confederate battle emblem to be removed from the Magnolia State's flag.
The Mega Millions jackpot is back up to a sizeable $52 million, and if you're hoping to take that nifty nestegg home tonight, you might want to tune in at 11 p.m. Eastern Time; that's when the multistate lottery's draw is set to take place at the studios of WSB-TV, Atlanta's ABC affiliate.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz thinks it ought to be up to South Carolinians whether the Confederate battle flag should continue to form part of a state house memorial in Columbia; the Texas senator noted that he understood "both sides" of the debate.
The rapprochement between Washington and Havana is expanding to cultural issues as U.S. and local authorities are embarking on a joint effort to restore and preserve Ernest Hemingway's house near the Cuban capital.
The wife of a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday apologized for a tweet in which she had called President Barack Obama "black and weak."
Some 22 people have died in what Agence France-Presse has described as "three days of violence" in northern Mexico; authorities announced the new death count after they discovered five more bodies on Sunday in the country's state of Nuevo León.
A collision between a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) boat and a small vessel on Thursday led to the death of a woman who was traveling on the panga motorboat, which authorities believed was being used to try to smuggle immigrants into the United States.
Pope Francis' long-awaited encyclical "Laudato Si'," in which the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics warned that climate change had brought the planet to a "breaking point" and called for an environmental "revolution," has received mixed reactions across the American political landscape.
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Delaware Gov. Jack Markell on Thursday signed a bill decriminalizing the possession and private use of marijuana hours after the state Senate had given final approval to the legislation.
In a long-awaited encyclical, Pope Francis on Thursday called for a "revolution" on climate change, a threat the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics warned had brought the planet to the verge of a perilous "breaking point."
Prince Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and fifth in line to the British throne, on Tuesday welcomed Michelle Obama for tea at Kensington Palace as the first lady embarked on the first leg of her week-long European tour.
The recent rapprochement between Washington and Havana did not keep the Cuban diplomats at the United Nations from demanding "self-determination and independence" for the people of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
A woman will grace at least some of the new $10 bills expected to go into circulation by 2020, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced on Wednesday. But, which woman will have her face be the first to appear on U.S. paper currency in more than a century?
Nasir al-Wahishi, al-Qaida's second in command, was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month, the White House confirmed on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is feeling some unlikely heat from socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is surging in polls in New Hampshire. That means the party's nomination might actually be contested in the Granite State, which traditionally holds the first-in-the-nation primary.
The New York Daily News is taking heat over a photograph it published showing the scantily clad derrieres of two women it claimed attended the city's Puerto Rican Day Parade, but who were not actually part of the event.
A 20-year-old New York college student has been taken into custody after he told a government informant that he planned to detonate a pressure-cooker bomb on behalf of the ISIS terrorist group.
