Around 17 tanker cars carrying crude oil exploded or caught fire after a CSX train derailed near a West Virginia lake. Federal and state officials are investigating the incident and testing the river's water for possible contamination.
According to a recently released poll of U.S. opinion on Russia, Americans have taken on an increasingly negative perspective toward the former Soviet Union in terms of several different and important aspects.
Conan O'Brien has taken a cue from President Barack Obama's efforts to warm ties with Cuba and, over the past weekend, filmed the March 4 episode of his TBS show in Havana.
The head of the Alabama court system is using a states' rights argument that conjures up "ghosts of slavery, the Civil War and the battle against desegregation" in his fight to stop same-sex marriage in the state. Chief Justice Roy Moore instructed probate judges to defy federal court rulings and refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
The Wall Street Cheat Sheet compiled a list of seven states that spend the most money on food stamps according to data from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
Marie Holmes, a 26-year-old unemployed mother of four, says she is ready to embrace a new life now that she has won the $564 million Powerball jackpot.
The collapse of the American-backed government in Yemen took the U.S. intelligence community by surprise, the Obama administration's senior counterterrorism official admitted on Thursday as he testified before Congress.
Sarah Palin fired back at hecklers as she left the "Saturday Night Live" 40th anniversary party early Monday morning, taunting them with retorts "get a job."
Hundreds of children and adults protested against police brutality in Washington Saturday amidst a fatal shooting of a migrant orchard worker in Pasco.
Former Young and the Restless star Victoria Rowell is suing the producers of the long-running soap opera charging the show refused to re-hire her for almost two decades because of racism and her advocacy for African Americans in the industry.
Boston sees 13 more inches Sunday Flights across the U. S. are being canceled in anticipation of more snow and ice. Cities in the Northeast have already been hit hard and are expected to get more snow early this week, Fox News reported.
Despite a GOP-controlled Congress seeking to undo President Obama's new immigration executive programs, Latino legislators this week assured immigrants that may qualify for those programs that they would indeed come to fruition, and they should get ready.
Gerald Kicanas, the Catholic Bishop of Tucson, Arizona, wants Congress to tackle immigration reform rather than the current enforcement-only bills they have on the table, he said this week.
Budding super couple Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio are apparently spending NBA All-Star Weekend in New York City together, where the two where recently spotted out and partying together until the wee hours of the morning.
The prosecution in the Jodi Arias death penalty sentencing retrial rested its case on Thursday, signaling that an end to the high profile trial may soon be near.
