The cast of the Golden Globe-nominated film "Selma," which tells the historical civil rights demonstrations led by Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1960s, gave advice and related the struggle 50 years ago to the protests over racial injustice currently occurring across the country.
The Supreme Court refused to allow Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on medical abortions. That decision has left in place a lower court ruling in Planned Parenthood Arizona et al. v. Humble that blocked the rules that regulate where and how women can take drugs to induce abortion. The measure will remain preliminarily blocked while the case moves forward in the federal district court.
A man has been arrested by Auburn, Alabama police in connection with the freshman football player at the nearby SEC university who was fatally shot over the weekend.
A Queens teenager has made millions and has not yet graduated from high school. The teen traded stocks until he amassed an incredible quantity. Now he plans to team up with two friends and start his own hedge fund company. However, the reported sum he acquired may not be accurate.
A northern white rhino has died at the San Diego Zoo, leaving just five of these creatures known to be living left and bringing the species even closer to extinction.
On Monday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation to impose sanctions on the Venezuelan government, and President Barack Obama has signaled he would sign the legislation into law.
The second open enrollment period of the federal HealthCare.gov and state-based health insurance exchanges has its first deadline set for Monday for consumers seeking coverage starting Jan. 1, 2015.
Shootings in three communities outside Philadelphia have left at least four people dead. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said the incidents appeared to be related to a domestic dispute. Meanwhile, the death toll has been put at five.
Congress approves $5.4 billion to be spent to fight Ebola and a UN commission issues a report on the socio-economic impacts of the Ebola virus on the African continent and presses for debt forgiveness.
A Philadelphia police officer killed a man early Monday following a struggle during a traffic stop in the Mayfair area of the city. The lethal shooting took place at around 2:45 a.m. on Frankford Avenue.
Two of three escaped Alabama inmates have been found and are in custody Two of three escaped inmates from an Alabama jail have been found and are in custody.
Kansas and tornadoes go together like Glinda and the Munchkins, but the state's residents experienced a particularly odd weather phenomenon Sunday when they saw a twister and snow on the same day.
A New York toddler died on Tuesday, possibly from drinking from an e-cigarette refill bottle. A New York toddler died on Tuesday, possibly from drinking from an e-cigarette refill bottle.
The parents of eight of the children killed in Dec. 14, 2012 at the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary have informed Connecticut courts that they might file wrongful death lawsuits in either state or federal court.
Not even a month has passed since President Barack Obama announced an executive order on immigration, but it has already been threatened by legal and legislative action.
The campaign to rein in the surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) has become even more difficult. Congress in its lame duck session has used a set of provisions that expand rather than curtail the agency's data-gathering power.
A missing 11-month-old Houston baby boy was found alive in Mexico on Friday, four days after his mother's body was found stuffed into a refrigerator in the family's apartment
A man from upstate New York pleaded guilty to charges that he mailed 21 death threats with white powder in the envelopes over 15 years to U.S. Senator John McCain, a local high school and others
