Some animals end up in local shelters and are snatched up almost as soon as their bios are posted on a shelter website or on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City can’t use an unconstitutional, two-century-old “anti-pauper” law to block the state of Texas ...

It was an early school dismissal day at Hillcrest Elementary in Frederick County, Maryland, in late September, when a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Lateefah Simon wins election to U.S. House in California’s 12th Congressional District.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Cherokee Nation Entertainment on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging a constitutional amendment Arkansas voters approved this week that revokes its license for a planned casino ...

Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say ...

A Venezuelan subsidiary of a Spanish phone company will pay more than $85 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department ...

A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year's Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art in the Senegalese ...

A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings ...

A crowd of mourners lit torches and intoned a military chant to honor a Ukrainian medic and a soldier who fell in love on the ...

The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie's “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, adopted after a gunman killed 7 people at a parade.