Two brothers waiting at a train station on the Northwest Side of Chicago were violently attacked by a man wielding a machete on Monday after they refused to throw up gang signs.
35 protesters were arrested in Ferguson, Missouri Wednesday afternoon as they attempted to block traffic on an interstate in a planned demonstration that called for a special prosecutor to investigate Michael Brown's death.
Ceremonies were held around the nation to remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. On the 13th anniversary of al-Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and the crash of United Flight 93, the nation remembers the attack that changed this nation's and the world's history.
The President said in a speech the U.S. would escalate its fight against ISIL alongside the Iraqi government and other allies, continuing airstrikes and sending more troops to Iraq in a support capability.
Gates Foundations commits $50 million to Ebola virus outbreak A $50 million contribution to support an emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was announced Wednesday by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Associated Press reported.
As Americans everywhere unite to remember those lost during Sept. 11, Ricardo Mulero, the lead designer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum exhibition, is opening up about creating an important part of American history and remembrance.
Supreme Court agrees to hear same-sex marriage petitions The U. S. Supreme Court has added same-sex marriage cases from five states to its closed-door agenda discussion at the end of the month, Al Jazeera reported.
A group of wildfires comprising the Happy Camp Fire Complex has been burning in northwest California since mid-August and firefighters just can’t seem to get a handle on it. The blaze continues to grow, currently having burned through 164 square miles of land, the equivalent of over 100,000 acres.
President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State militant group.Obama's decision to launch attacks inside Syria, which is embroiled in a three-year civil war, marked a turnabout for the president, who shied away a year ago from airstrikes to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people.
On Wednesday morning a tropical depression in the East Pacific strengthened into yet another tropical storm, adding to the extensive tally of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season.
On Friday, Sept. 12, a hospital in Boston will hold a fundraiser in an effort to continue its goal of helping Latinos in America get access to health care.
At 96 years old, Edith Hill happily married her 95-year-old husband Eddie Harrison earlier this year after the two met 10 years ago. However, although they say they are in love, the law may not be on their side.
After pouring rains and subsequent flooding closed a 50-mile stretch of a busy interstate, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency for Clark County and the Moapa Paiute Tribe Reservation.
Philadelphia to become largest city to decriminalize marijuana Philadelphia is poised to be the next city in the nation to legalize marijuana, based on an agreement to sign the law by Mayor Michael Nutter.
