A Pennsylvania teenager was arrested and charged Thursday with conspiracy and providing material support to the notorious terror group Islamic State via social media.
Virginia officials shut down an entire school district on Friday after a homework assignment on Arabic calligraphy led to threats and a firestorm of backlash from angry parents.
The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is rebuffing the Democratic National Committee's accusations that they improperly accessed voter information collected by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
An alliance of black parents and civil rights leaders are calling for a South Carolina prosecutor to drop the charges against a 16-year-old high school student who was violently yanked from her desk and thrown to the floor by a police officer in her classroom.
After weeks of negotiations to fund the federal government, both chambers of Congress voted on Friday to pass a $1.1 trillion spending package and year-end tax bill that prevents a government shutdown.
Miss Puerto Rico, Destiny Vélez Segarra, has taken to Twitter to express her outrage over filmmaker and activist Michael Moore posting a picture of himself standing in front of Trump Tower with a placard that reads: "We are all Muslim."
Enrique Marquez Jr., the man accused of supplying weapons to one of the San Bernardino shooters, allegedly his involvement in a terrorist plot on Facebook a month before the Dec. 2 attack.
The cholesterol health of Latinos, and in particular of Mexican-Americans, was the basis of a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Despite pleas from Puerto Rican officials including its governor, Congress will likely not include any relief for the U.S. territory in the omnibus spending bill.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump during a news conference on Thursday, calling him "an outstanding and talented personality."
The United States and Cuba have announced on Thursday a new bilateral arrangement allowing air services between the two countries to resume after 50 years.
Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a major endorsement for his bid in the Democratic presidential race on Thursday from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.
Two 16-year-old girls were taken into custody after allegedly conspiring to kill their classmates and staff members at their suburban Denver high school on Tuesday.
Disgraced Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been indicted on six accounts of first-degree murder stemming from the October 2014 shooting death of teenager Laquan McDonald.
Texas authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of Ethan Couch, the infamous rich teenager who was sentenced to 10 years of probation after he killed four people in a drunk driving accident and his lawyers argued that he was a victim of "affluenza."
Martin Shkreli, the infamous drug company executive known for raising the price of a life-saving drug to absurd costs, is in the news once again after he was arrested at his Manhattan home Thursday on suspicion of securities fraud.
President Barack Obama offered a warm welcome to more than 30 new citizens, including an Iraq refugee, at a naturalization ceremony in Washington on Tuesday. He also rebuffed calls to close American borders in light of recent terror attacks, declaring that it would be un-American for the nation to close its doors to those fleeing war.
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