On Wednesday, authorities released some of the emergency-911 calls that were made following the fatal school shooting at the Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington State last month.
After an almost two week hiatus, the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial continued on Wednesday as the lawyers representing the convicted killer argued that the murder victim was a sexual deviant who lived a secret life.
In an effort to dispel rumors that its leader had been killed, ISIS on Thursday released a 17-minute audio recording of a man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Nurses in California and Washington, DC began a two-day strike Wednesday over staff and equipment shortfalls, particularly when treating Ebola patients. Thousands of registered nurses in 14 other US states held rallies in solidarity.
Despite negative events in society, Latino families have high optimism on life, health care and the future. Polling data conducted by Latino Decisions revealed Latinos, including immigrants, are also hopeful on many issues encountered in the U.S.
The United States and China, two super powers long at loggerheads over greenhouse emissions, announced a historic climate change deal on Wednesday. While the pact is largely symbolic, climate watchers think it could loosen up dialogue for the 200 nations who have to make an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions for a meeting in Paris in 2015.
Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., the parents of teen Michael Brown Jr., testified before the United Nations Committee Against Torture on Nov. 11 to shine light on the climate of Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of their son's death.
A Manhattan prosecutor is putting up as much as $35 million of his office's funds to help overcome a backlog in the testing of rape kits across the nation.
As Latinos are set to have their largest class yet in the upcoming 114th U.S. Congress, Latinos also made history within state legislative levels following this year's midterm elections.
Six years after the government's last clarification on its definition of torture, the UN Committee Against Torture, which is currently convening in Geneva, demanded the country explain what it plans to do about allegations of torture and internal violence, from CIA "black sites" to the Michael Brown shooting.
United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled ambitious new targets for a climate change deal at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing Tuesday.
Fifteen hikers from a church group who failed to return from a Sunday hike in the Southern California Mountains were found safe by a helicopter search crew Monday morning.
The New York Fire Department on Wednesday rescued two window washers who had been trapped on a scaffolding 69 stories up the side of New York City's newly inaugurated 1 World Trade City.
