LOS ANGELES — For nearly 50 years Charles Manson has been the living personification of evil, a demonic presence captured in scores of photos, each of...
WASHINGTON — The White House is sending Congress an approximately $45 billion disaster aid request Friday that will fall short of demands from hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida...
WASHINGTON — The director of the Homeland Security Department’s office of faith-based partnerships has resigned following a CNN report on racially inflammatory remarks he made before...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is upending longstanding precedent on two judicial nominees. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Thursday he’s...
AMHERST, S.D. — TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil onto agricultural land in northeastern South Dakota, the company and state regulators...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Parents at a rural Oregon high school have filed a federal lawsuit over the school district’s policy to allow a transgender male student...
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia would regulate carbon emissions from power plants and become the first Southern state, its officials say, with a carbon cap-and-trade program under...
DALLAS — The mother of a girl who was adopted from India and found dead last month in suburban Dallas has been charged with child abandonment...
BOSTON — The new boss of Massachusetts State Police says her office will investigate revisions made to a police report about a judge’s daughter. The agency...
NEW ORLEANS — The suspect in last month’s shooting of a New Orleans police officer was indicted on Thursday for first-degree murder. A grand jury indicted...