There is lots of excitement for the March 4 Powerball jackpot, which currently stands at $90 million. The drawing will take place Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday concluded three days of negotiations on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, and an unidentified senior State Department official said that both sides had inched closer to a deal.
Following the death of an unarmed Hispanic man who was fatally shot by police in Pasco, Washington last month, Pasco Police Chief Robert Metzger admitted that he does not know the policy that liberates an officer to use of deadly force.
Former CIA director David Petraeus on Tuesday pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count after admitting that he given highly classified information to his mistress and lied about it to the federal investigators. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors had agreed not to charge the retired four-star Army general with more serious crimes.
The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday defied the nation's highest tribunal and ordered that marriage licenses no longer be issued to same-sex couples in the state. The ruling comes some three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a stay on a decision by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade, who had overturned Alabama's ban on such unions.
Protesters marched to the Los Angeles Police Department in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday where they demanded justice for an unarmed homeless man who was fatally shot during a scuffle with police officers on Sunday.
As Russia's presence in the Arctic increases, the Navy has begun using underwater drones to assess the rate ice is melting and opening waterways. This will help the Navy plan ahead for deployments and other projects.
Mexico's foreign ministry on Tuesday forcefully condemned the death of Ernesto Javier Canepa Díaz, a Mexican citizen shot to death by police in Santa Ana, California, on Friday, according to a statement released on its Web site.
The jury in the Jodi Arias death penalty sentencing retrial may be having trouble in reaching a decision on whether to sentence the convicted killer to life in prison or execution for the murder of her lover, Travis Alexander.
On Friday, the president will visit South Carolina for the first time since he won the primary run. Though some GOP members have politicized the visit, Democrats are happy the president is finally visiting.
A casual gaze at the official painting of President Bill Clinton at the National Portrait Gallery would easily miss a reference to the biggest scandal of his presidency — Monica Lewinsky.
Educators and students are mourning the death of a Southern California high school teacher who hung herself inside of her art classroom Monday morning.
Analysts have long noted that Jeb Bush's last name may prove a liability when it comes to the Republican presidential hopeful's shots at the White House, and the former Florida governor is taking the issue head-on.
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in congressional history, will not run for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate in 2016, her office announced on Monday. The 78-year-old Democrat said her decision came down to how the demands of another campaign would have affected her ability to work on behalf of her constituents.
President Barack Obama on Monday said that his administration's overture to Cuba will usher in reforms on the island and that he hopes to open a U.S. Embassy in Havana by mid-April. He cautioned that the opening of a full-scale diplomatic post does not mean that ties between Washington and Havana would be completely normalized.
