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The man who ran Penn State amid allegations that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting young boys may now face jail time.

A private plane crashed into a residence in an Atlanta suburb Friday night, but the people inside the home got out safely, authorities said.

Republicans' embarrassing flub of Obamacare repeal effort makes plain the problem of shutting out Democrats, and putting the GOP agenda at the mercy of party extremists, writes Errol Louis.

President Donald Trump's administration officially issued a permit on Friday that approves construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, fulfilling a campaign promise to complete the controversial oil pipeline.

The North Carolina man who police say fired an assault rifle in a Washington, DC, pizzeria while investigating an online conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate" pleaded guilty Friday to gun charges in federal court.

An MS-13 gang member who has been removed from the US four times and is originally from El Salvador pleaded not guilty Thursday to stabbing two women and sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl in Long Island, officials told CNN.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Maybe so. But that doesn't explain how so many Americans adore their Medicare but still express bitter hatred for government intervention in health care.

Chicago activists and neighbors of a teenage girl whose sexual assault was broadcast on Facebook Live are urging the community to identify the suspects.

What do you do when you're a student and you want to compete in robotics competitions -- and you're blind? Well, you go to the dark side, of course.

An Amtrak train traveling from Boston to Washington D.C. had a "minor" derailment as it passed through New York Penn Station on Friday morning, Amtrak said in a statement.

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has weighed in on the student body election of his alma mater, questioning whether Texas A&M's first openly gay student body president legitimately earned the title.