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The University of Alabama will make changes to its sorority system following a report in a student publication revealing discrimination in the Greek-letter organizations' formal recruitment process.
NEW YORK -- Two years after getting its start in a downtown Manhattan park, Occupy Wall Street, the populist movement protesting economic inequality, marked its second anniversary on Tuesday with a protest near the New York Stock Exchange and a march near the United Nations.
Here's a snapshot of some of the top stories we're following Tuesday evening:D.C.
President Barack Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of government contractor and employee protections, according to the White House. The move comes in the wake of the mass shooting at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, which raised concerns about security procedures at U.S. military installations.
Aaron Alexis, the Washington Navy Yard shooter, rented an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and used it for target practice at a Northern Virginia gun range and store less than two days before his shooting spree, according to the lawyer for the store.J.
Parents and a school district officials were aghast and distraught after a 13-year-old Texas boy died four days after he suffered a severe allergic reaction to ant bites during a football game.Cameron Espinosa was in a huddle with his teammates at Paul R.
Two decades-old cars containing five skeletons were recovered Tuesday from a lake in a remote, sparsely populated area of southwestern Oklahoma, officials said — potentially solving a pair of cold cases that have bedeviled local authorities for years.
Lawyers for North Carolina cop who shot an unarmed man seeking help after a car accident say their clients actions were "justified.
Sunny skies greeted rescue crews Tuesday in flood-torn Colorado as work continued to reach stranded residents.Almost half of the people who were declared unaccounted for or missing following the devastating floods have been found safe following an intensive search, officials said.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Aaron Alexis was so unhappy with his life in America — where he was beset by money woes and felt slighted as a veteran — that he was "ready to move out of the country" last year, a friend said Tuesday.
