Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven-week break picked up right where they left off — feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito-borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget.
North Carolina authorities are searching for a man who they say shot and killed his 15-year-old son and later used Facebook to admit to shooting and critically wounding his ex-wife.
A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds little evidence of Hollywood improving in the diversity of its movie characters or directors.
The New York attorney general's office is investigating whether Mylan Pharmaceuticals unfairly limited competition for its emergency allergy treatment EpiPen, which has been criticized for steep price increases.
A Nevada homicide suspect remained on the loose Tuesday, four days after he broke his metal handcuffs and escaped from custody at a Las Vegas-area police station, authorities said.
An unemployed motorcycle mechanic who gunned down airport screening officers at Los Angeles International Airport in a 2013 attack that sent passengers running for their lives pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and 10 other charges.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is arguing that releasing the final autopsy reports in the unsolved slayings of eight people from one family would threaten the investigation.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump resumed their forays into battleground states Tuesday -- this time in the South, where they tried to appeal to the region’s military and retirees with vows to make America safer and provide better health care.
