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The deadly Midwest storm system on Sunday, which included two of the most powerful November tornadoes that far north for more than 100 years, caused an estimated $1 billion in damage, an expert said Tuesday.One of the two EF4 tornadoes recorded on Sunday devastated large parts of Washington, Ill.
A federal judge in Missouri has given a stay of execution Tuesday to white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin just hours before his scheduled death.U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled late Tuesday afternoon in St.
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday declined to block a new abortion law that activists said had the effect of shutting down about a third of the abortion clinics in Texas. The justices voted 5-4.
AUSTIN, Texas — A group of young political conservatives at the University of Texas canceled a game planned for Wednesday called "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" after criticism from students, the university and the state's Republican attorney general.
Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood.
In interviews with the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center staff in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, many survivors said they were so injured in the blaze and escape from the building that they are unable to work again. Yet the compensation they received after the disaster—if they received any assistance at all—was not sufficient to cover initial medical bills, let alone pay for the expensive, ongoing care many need. Some were the sole breadwinners and, without the ability to work and with no financial assistance to see them through their recoveries, their families often go hungry, they cannot afford to send their children to school and many even risk losing their homes.
Hours after his home was among hundreds torn apart by a massive tornado that ripped through Washington, Ill. Sunday, Jonathan Byler Dann was given a glimpse of hope.
Officials in a Massachusetts town have called off the remainder of a high school football team's season after racially charged graffiti was allegedly spray-painted on the house of the team's only black player.Lunenburg, Mass.
George Zimmerman was accused in court Tuesday of choking his girlfriend and threatening suicide before this week’s domestic disturbance that landed him in jail on a felony assault charge.
A teenager who pleaded guilty to the brutal killing of a 10-year-old girl in Colorado has been sentenced to life in prison.Austin Sigg, 18, was not eligible for the death penalty because he was 17 at the time of Jessica Ridgeway's death.
