The Connecticut Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday deciding that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional. The decision also stated that exemptions to the state's death penalty ban violated Connecticut's constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
The man was trying to get his cell phone back after it dropped from the roller coaster A man died after being killed by a roller coaster. Yahoo reports that James A.
A U.S. District Court judge in Arizona has granted a Department of Justice’s motion to intervene in the case of Melendres v. Arpaio, a private lawsuit filed against Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joseph Arpaio for engaged in racial profiling and unlawful traffic stops of Latinos.
When questioned about his feud with Donald Trump at a town hall meeting in Tucson, the Republican senator likened Trump to a pig that likes to get dirty.
Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco, who has publicized he's "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, imported to the USA," announced via Facebook on Wednesday that he will read a new poem at the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday.
After hijacking a campaign event featuring 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders last weekend, members of the Black Lives Matter movement struck again on Wednesday, this time interrupting Republican candidate Jeb Bush while he was speaking at a town hall in Nevada.
As over fifty years of icy relations between the Unites States and Cuba continue to thaw, Secretary of State John Kerry will go to Havana, Cuba, on Friday, August 14, to re-designate the U.S. Interests Section to U.S. Embassy Havana.
The portrait of the first governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin, made its Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery (NPG) debut on Thursday. Painted by Francisco Rodón, the oil-on-canvas portrait could play a major role in establishing a dialogue between U.S. and Puerto Rican history.
Patrick Kane has been removed from the cover of the upcoming hockey game "NHL 16" due to the sexual allegations he's currently facing, EA Sports confirmed.
Although many Republicans have banded together in a renewed effort to shut down Planned Parenthood, 2016 Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump took a surprising stance and defended the women's health organization on Tuesday.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. issued a letter to Congress in conjunction with more than 100 elected officials from the United States urging Congress to allow Puerto Rico to enter bankruptcy.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll.
Former President Jimmy Carter revealed Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with cancer. Former President Jimmy Carter revealed Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
