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U.S. Park Police say a man was shot outside the White House Friday afternoon. The president was not in Washington at the time of the incident.
The person was shot after approaching a checkpoint outside the White House grounds with a gun and refusing commands to drop it, officials said.
Nearly 100 pools around the U.S. that hold spent nuclear fuel rods aren't as safe as the government says, asserts a new study.
Obama rejected two offers of Zika funding from Congress, urging lawmakers to give him the money he asked for as soon as possible to fight the virus.
The violent confrontation between a Florida man and Georgia deputies who Tasered him repeatedly was captured on their body cameras.
The evidence has mounted, and is clearly accepted, that extreme income inequality has grown in the United States over the past 40 years—and by extreme income inequality, I mean a huge imbalance in income growth favoring the top 1% of the population. This is extreme because it is large enough and sufficiently imbalanced growth that it must force a rethinking of economic policies.
In the shadow of the NRA's largest gathering, Louisville remains a city rattled by an uptick in shootings and homicides, the latest police data show.
During national Infrastructure Week, metro riders in Washington, D.C., were the latest Americans to get an alarming reminder of how badly our infrastructure needs improvement when popular website FiveThirtyEight.com noted that trains in the nation's capital catch fire, on average, more than four times a week. Scan the local news across the country, in places like Flint, Michigan, for example, and you'll see other stories of crumbling infrastructure. These stories of collapsing bridges, trains on fire and undrinkable water are far from just annoyances, they are a clear sign that the safety and prosperity of America's working people is in danger without massive improvements.
Computers are pretty good at stocking shelves and operating cars, but are not so great at writing poetry.
The girl told police she was handcuffed by her ankle, fed spoiled scraps of food, and forced to use a bucket filled with ammonia as her bathroom.
