This week League City, Texas' city council passed an ordinance that bans shelters for any of the unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired verbal and non-verbal communication, weakened social interactions, and limited and repetitive behavior — and it's greatly affecting the Latino community.
An agreement was reached Wednesday to allow University of Texas at Austin president William "Bill" Powers Jr. to remain in office until next June before resigning.
The shooting happened Wednesday afternoon and ended that same night with the arrest of the suspect. Four children and two adults are dead, following a domestic dispute gone awry.
On Thursday morning, an asbestos issue caused some parts of the U.S. Capitol building to be closed temporarily. Other areas are still closed to the public.
On Tuesday, the former friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gave a chilling testimony about Tsarnaev's behavior in the days after the attack.
Residents of Washington state lined up outside marijuana dispensaries Tuesday to buy legalized weed, which was officially approved for sale Tuesday. However, there is currently a shortage of marijuana purveyors.
Passengers aboard a rerouted Frontier Airlines were treated to pizza provided by the pilot Passengers on Frontier Airlines Flight 719 got some pleasant news after landing at Cheyenne Regional Airport in Wyoming on a flight from Washington, D.
A lawyer, a non-profit executive director, two professors and a Republican candidate for public office were all possibly being spied on by the NSA for possible ties to terrorist groups: they were Muslim Americans.
President was out with the Colorado governor at a bar. He may have admitted to smoking pot as a young man, but President Obama passed on an offer to legally smoke it Tuesday evening while out at a bar in Colorado.
Colorado was the first Washington has become the second state in the U. S. to legally sell marijuana without a doctor's note, as eager customers lined up outside stores to be the first customers on Tuesday.
Father of five was found dead by ship's captain the next day. An expensive prostitute allegedly injected a married Google executive with a lethal dose of heroin while aboard his yacht, police say.
On Tuesday, protestors took to the streets in response to District Attorney Jill Ravitch's Monday announcement that Deputy Erick Gelhaus, who shot and killed 13-year-old Andy Lopez thinking his toy gun was an assault rifle, won't be charged.
Multiple states in the Northeast were hit by powerful, fast-moving storms Tuesday night that killed at least five people and left almost 200,000 others without power.
Two people have been arrested in connection with a near collision between a NYPD helicopter and an unmanned drone aircraft over the George Washington Bridge Monday.
The excitement is growing for the July 9 Powerball jackpot, which has risen to a whopping $122 million. The drawing will take place Wednesday at 11 p.m. EDT.
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, along with other elected officials, announced the creation of a new merit scholarship program at the City's public colleges on Tuesday at City Hall.
At the New York Academy of Medicine on Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the medical marijuana bill which allows legal access to non-smokeable medical marijuana for chronically ill or injured patients.
