A New York City man has filed federal suit against the city, alleging that he was forced to spend six weeks on Rikers Island simply because he fit the nondescript bill of a black suspect wearing a hoodie.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced a key moment in her 2016 presidential campaign on Thursday, as she fielded questions from the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which occurred during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.
Many Democrats may belittle Donald Trump, but Republicans apparently take the candidacy of the real-estate mogul, and current presidential front-runner quite seriously, a new poll suggests.
Student leaders at the University of Mississippi passed a resolution to remove the Mississippi state flag from its campus since the flag contains the Confederate battle emblem.
The family members of a popular church drummer, who was shot and killed by a plainclothes police officer in Florida early Sunday morning, are praying for answers.
Seventy Kurdish hostages were rescued after special U.S. forces, working with Kurdish commandos, attacked an Islamic State outpost located near the Iraqi town of Hawija. One U.S. soldier was killed in the raid.
More than $2.2 billion in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grants were awarded to cities, states and local community-based organizations throughout the 2015 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.
The 14-year-old Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas high school as it was mistaken for a bomb last month has accepted a scholarship to attend school in Qatar.
The Obama administration has been working on an coordinated effort to help communities battling "epidemic" heroin and prescription painkiller abuse, which includes President Barack Obama traveling to West Virginia, a state particularly hard hit by drug abuse.
A U.S. federal court judge shot down the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) push to have technical college IDs, out-of-state driver's licenses and veterans' photo IDs all declared as permissible options to Wisconsin's strict voter ID laws.
Need to fly your newly acquired drone? You may need to check first with the U.S Government's policy on how to register it before you can fly it freely.
Texas health officials announced Monday that it was cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics in response to controversial videos of officials discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue.
The federal government is finally doing something to tame and regulate recreational drone use, long after the explosion in popularity of casual consumer drones has created major safety issues in the sky.
A Kentucky prosecutor is under fire for apparently telling, in open court, that he believes being Hispanic is "probable cause" to be pulled over in a traffic stop.
