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When President George W. Bush made the decision to invade Iraq, there was no way to know the lasting ramifications of his choice. But a decade later, it's clear that the conflict not only transformed his own political party, but all of American politics.
A day after a juvenile court judge found two Steubenville High School football players guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl, Ohio’s attorney general announced two more teens have been arrested — for allegedly using social media to threaten the victim.
Severe thunderstorms Monday raked across a wide area of the South, packing strong winds, rain and some baseball-size hail.
A German man who once posed as a member of the wealthy Rockefeller clan before his secret life unraveled was accused in a California courtroom on Monday of murdering his landlord in 1985 and then going to great lengths to cover up the death.
Colorado's governor will sign three gun control bills into law on Wednesday, including one banning ammunition magazines with more than 15 rounds in a state that has experienced two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
A four-month investigation into a retail theft ring that targeted businesses in four states led authorities to arrest four people who described themselves as a "gypsy family" from Chicago that was attempting to pay off a debt.
A lawyer defending a Philadelphia abortion provider on murder charges accused officials of "an elitist, racist prosecution" as the death-penalty trial opened Monday.
The annual event, along the same lines as the hokey White House tradition of the Thanksgiving Turkey pardon, will celebrate its 135th anniversary this year — unless the partisan battle over the sequester gets in the way.
America’s 3.6 million minimum-wage workers will get a nearly 40 percent pay raise, if Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has his way. More than 70 percent in the U.S. favor raising the minimum wage, according to a recent Gallup poll, but Harkin's proposal faces an uncertain path to becoming law.
Arizona is once again serving as a national flash point in a Supreme Court case to decide the legality of its law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Oral arguments began on Monday with Sonia Sotomayor and Antonin Scalia squaring off, but experts say the law may lead to a trend of similar state laws if it is allowed to stand.
