U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa declared Argentina in contempt of court in a hearing on Monday over its failure to pay hold-out investors. Griesa said he would decide on sanctions at a later date, but investors had requested daily fines of $50,000 and payment towards some of the holdouts' legal fees.
The manhunt for the suspect in the ambush that killed a Pennsylvania trooper and wounded another won't stop the opening of deer-hunting season in the Pocono Mountains, one of most prized spots in the Northeast for game, authorities said on Monday.
There was no sign the driver of a truck that hit a bus, killing four college softball players from Texas, tried to avoid the collision after he left an Oklahomahighway traveling at about 70 miles per hour, U.S. officials said on Monday.
Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer has been indicted for felony aggravated assault over accusations he broke his wife's nose during one of two alleged domestic incidents in July, court documents showed on Monday.
Work on a pair of U.S. commercial spaceships to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station will be delayed after a losing contender protested the NASA awards, agency Administrator Charles Bolden said on Monday.
The man who breached security at the White House this month raced through several rooms on the main floor, penetrating farther into the building than previously disclosed, a Republican congressman said on Monday.
As Jodi Arias faces the start of her penalty phase retrial, friends say that the infamous boyfriend killer is "scared" that she will receive a death sentence.
A New York Fire Department's Emergency Medical Services captain is facing charges for committing sexual acts against two minors in California earlier this month.
The New York Civilian Complaint Review said it would release a report on the number of chokehold complaints it had received following the chokehold death of Eric Garner in Staten Island in July.
Bill requires colleges to follow certain protocols in sexual assault reports California Gov. Jerry Brown said on Sunday that he signed a bill making California the first state in the U.
Controversial blogger Pamela Geller will not run anti-Islamic ads featuring a still from American journalist James Foley's beheading video in New York City and San Francisco.
Man faces charges of lying to authorities investigating Boston Marathon bombing The selection of a jury has begun for the trail of a man who is accused of lying to authorities investigating the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013.
The bill would earmark $3 million to pay for attorneys that would represent the thousands of unaccompanied undocumented children currently in California.
U.S. lawmakers on Sunday stepped up calls for congressional authorization of President Barack Obama's war against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, amid signs the United Statesand its allies face a long and difficult fight.
JetBlue shares have struggled compared with their airline peers this year, but the arrival of a new chief executive could lead to sharp gains at the low-cost airline, Barron's wrote in its Sept. 29 edition.
One of the more unusual trials to come out of the 2008 financial crisis is set to begin on Monday, when a federal judge will consider whether the U.S. government's rescue of American International Group Inc was, in fact, legal.
