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Seattle’s socialist City Council member announced Monday that she will make good on a campaign pledge and accept only $40,000 a year in salary, the average wage of a worker in the city.

NEW ORLEANS — Jury selection started on Monday in the public corruption trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who led the city during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and now faces charges he profited personally from the city's recovery.

BOSTON — The trial began on Monday for a Massachusetts woman accused of killing her pregnant friend, cutting the fetus out of her body and later attempting to pass off the baby as her own.

If you’re going outside in some parts of the country — the parts where it’s cold enough to close schools and ground flights — cover up.Cover everything up.That’s the advice of Dr.

Less than a week after one grand jury declined to charge him, a different one has indicted a Charlotte, N.C., police officer for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man who was looking for help after a car crash.

The Deep South is the next target for a brutal winter freeze, with much of the region in the crosshairs of a storm that forecasters called "potentially paralyzing" and "crippling.

We asked you what you wanted to hear in the State of the Union address from President Obama and here are some highlights of what you said. 

The Obama administration and some of the nation's biggest providers of Internet services have settled their dispute over how much the companies can reveal about requests for customer information from US intelligence agencies, according to court documents filed on Monday.

One person was dead and two others were injured in a shooting near a suburban Atlanta high school Monday afternoon, police and school officials told NBC News.

A warmer winter is being blamed for the mammoth Alaskan avalanche that has cut off a port city’s sole road to the outside — stoking fears of flash floods and future landslides.