The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began a long-shot bid at a constitutional amendment that would limit deep-pocketed political campaign donors’ influence.
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Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls have been charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide in a stabbing that nearly killed another girl the same age.
Companies, customers and others critical of Texas gun rights advocates who have brought military-style assault rifles into businesses as part of demonstrations supporting “open carry” gun rights now have a surprising ally: the National Rifle Association.
Which scares you more: Hurricane Victor or Hurricane Victoria? People are slightly less likely to flee an oncoming storm with a feminine name than a masculine one, a new study finds.
Authorities say they have captured the social media maven who was wanted on suspicion of possessing explosives after an intense three-day manhunt.
The Pentagon concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military curbed any high-risk rescue plans.
For decades, NASA has been sending robotic passengers to the red planet for scientific study, but if astronauts are to be transported to Mars, a bigger, stronger parachute is needed for the job.
Police searched Monday for a man who stabbed and killed one child and critically wounded another in an elevator at a city housing development in Brooklyn — a chilling crime that escaped the scrutiny of security cameras.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion and is expected to bring the boosterism, that he brought to the tech world, to the court.
The identical “mono mono” twins, born sharing the same amniotic sac and placenta, are making progress toward going home from the hospital, their parents say.
Authorities say winds up to 30 mph carried two children in suburban Denver away, causing injuries in the latest case of an inflatable bounce house breaking loose and being blown around in the wind.
R&B singer Chris Brown was released from a Los Angeles County jail around midnight Monday after being taken into custody mid-March after he was expelled from a court-ordered rehab sentence for violating its rules.
Donald Sterling, whose racist remarks in a recording triggered the fight over ownership of Los Angeles Clippers, was invited to Praises of Zion Missionary Baptist Church, a predominately black church of worship and said the service was “beautiful.”
A eyewitness account of the jet crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and six others provided some of the first clues as investigators began piecing together what went wrong during the attempted takeoff from a runway outside Boston.
When a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy hanged himself, he left behind a house full of questions. Among the items at his house were thousands of his video-recorded traffic stops that were withheld in a racial-profiling case against his boss, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
