Revelers celebrated New Year's Eve in Las Vegas and Southern California amidst near-freezing temperatures due to a blustery winter storm which dumped snow and ice across the West. Many motorists also found themselves trapped in snow while several people died from the severe wintery storms.
The Obama Administration moved one step closer to its goal of closing Guantanamo Bay by releasing five more prisoners and transferring them to another country earlier this week.
A Staten Island Supreme Court judge will hold a hearing on January 5 into petitions seeking transcripts, instructions, and evidence from the grand jury that investigated the death of Eric Garner but decided not to indict the police officer involved in his chokehold death in July.
In addition to bringing in the New Year on Thursday, 3.1 million low-wage workers in 21 states across the country received an increase in their salaries.
Winner goes to Championship game Florida State is 13-0 and still fighting to prove they are the No. 1 team in college football. The problem is, they are No.
More than 200 people being detained in immigration custody in Arizona have been released during the last month in light of the new enforcement directives from President Obama handed to Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed this week.
More Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week bringing totals to 298,000, according to the Labor Department. The figure was an increase of 17,000 from the previous week.
A federal judge has denied Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's last-minute request to postpone his upcoming trial for nine months and move it case out of Massachusetts. As a result, the high profile case is still set to begin on Monday, Jan. 5 in Boston.
A 17-year-old student, who was born as a boy named Joshua, but identified as a girl named Leelah Alcorn, decided to end her life early Sunday morning by walking onto Interstate 71, where she was hit by a tractor-trailer.
Give your ears some listening pleasure this year If you are tired of poor sounding headphones during your workout or music listening session, you have come to the right place.
This year, more than any in recent memory, we awoke to the realities of the problems and promise inherent in what has become our hyper-connected, 21st century lives.
For more than 100 years, New York City's Times Square has been a global staple in celebrating New Year's Eve. Since 1907, millions of people around the world have watched the New Year's Eve ball drop at the stroke of midnight in the heart of Manhattan.
If you would like to start the new year with over $100 million in your bank account, then you should try your luck at the Powerball lottery jackpot, which has soared to a whopping $120 million. The drawing will take place Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET.
A 29-year-old mother was shot and killed in Walmart after her 2-year-old son reached into her purse and accidentally discharged her concealed handgun on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama revealed he was "frustrated" with the lack of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress and referred to his executive actions as "a first step" to future efforts.
