When Missouri launched an initiative in 2012 to encourage schools to use recycled tires to produce safer playground surfaces, it likely had no idea it was triggering a major religious liberty fight.

For the second time in a week, Republicans dodged a potential political cataclysm.

Iran is sticking to the terms of its nuclear deal made with the Obama administration, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has concluded, but he questions whether sanctions should keep being lifted, given Iran's continued support for terrorism.

Sexual assault survivors in Maryland don't have to prove they physically fought their attackers to establish that a crime occurred under a new law signed by Gov. Larry Hogan.

A man fatally shot three people in less than two minutes in what police in Fresno, California, are calling a hate crime.

The three women hugged, talked and wept, united in grief by a killer who recorded the last minutes of his victim's life.

Convicted murderer and former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was found hanged in his Massachusetts prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said, just days after he was acquitted in a separate murder case.

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Lawmakers should reject a proposed Texas House of Representatives measure to divert $40 million from the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) and funnel the money into other unrelated programs, Public Citizen said today.

Across the United States, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers. Driver inexperience is the major factor followed by distracted and impaired driving.

The One Million Backpacks Committee, chaired by Ava Logans Clark, of the Xi Alpha Omega (XAO) Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority, Incorporated has been hard at work collecting backpacks and filling them with school supplies to help children …

President Trump keeps pushing "Buy American." He's planning to tout it again at a stop in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

Richard Cole was not thinking much about the future when flying in the surprise Doolittle revenge raid on Japan 75 years ago Tuesday. He says he was scared all the time. Now, at age 101, he is the last survivor …

Steve Stephens, the Cleveland murder suspect who posted video of the slaying on Facebook, killed himself in Pennsylvania after a police chase, officers said Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton's loss at the hands of Donald Trump last November is the single biggest upset in modern presidential politics.