A wildfire complex burning in northwest California for the better part of the past month has now destroyed almost 75,000 acres of land and forces mass evacuations in nearby communities. With thousands of fire personnel and resources being utilized, the cost of fighting the blaze has crawled up to $44.7 million as of Thursday morning.
Tropical Storm Norbert, currently off the west coast of Mexico, has officially been upgraded to a hurricane as of Wednesday. Norbert is the ninth named storm in a busy hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific, reports say.
After spending three decades behind bars, two mentally disabled half-brothers were exonerated on Tuesday after DNA evidence proved that they did not rape and murder a child in 1983.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York held two hours of oral arguments on Tuesday for the first time over whether it is constitutional and legal for the government to collect data on American's phone calls, through a program that began after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot and killed an Arizona gun range instructor last week while he was teaching her how to fire an Uzi said the automatic weapon was "too much for her."
A 5-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after officials say she was trapped in an operating washing machine at a Laundromat in Pasadena, Texas on Tuesday.
The People's Climate March, a massive global rally on Sept. 21 in New York City, will lead up to a specially called-for United Nations summit on the climate crisis.
The last of the Madoff sons dies of cancer Andrew Madoff, son of multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff, died Wednesday at a New York City hospital at the age of 48.
President Barack Obama is planning to send 350 troops to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and its surrounding facilities amid the growing threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIL or ISIS.
Home Depot could have been hit by fraud artists and hackers Home Depot is looking into a possible data breach involving stolen credit cards and debit cards that may have been happening since earlier this spring, the company said Tuesday.
Shawshank Redemption prison to be renovated and opened as year-round attraction The Ohio prison in the hit movie Shawshank Redemption has been an unofficial tourist site, but a preservation society wants to renovate the partly demolished building and open it as a year-round tourist attraction, according to The Independent.
On Tuesday, Puerto Rico announced its plan to become a tourism destination for those searching for cheap medical care. The United States commonwealth is especially targeting Hispanics from the East Coast and the Caribbean.
U.S. expected to retaliate to second beheading of an American journalist U. S. President Barack Obama confirmed Wednesday that the video showing the decapitation of American journalist Steven Sotloff was authentic and signaled that the U.
Over 300,000 immigrants are in jeopardy of losing their ObamaCare health insurance this month. Over 300,000 immigrants are in jeopardy of losing their ObamaCare health insurance this month.
Previous two Americans have recovered Another American doctor has been diagnosed with Ebola, the third to contract the virus in West Africa since the outbreak began in March.
