Sen. John Thune used his first few minutes of floor time to make a commitment to defend the filibuster rule, which requires at least 60 votes to pass Senate legislation.

For the striking cover shoot, photographed by Shaniqwa Jarvis, the Olympic gold medalist is seen wearing a fitted snakeskin-print top along with cascading highlighted curls and high-glam that includes ...

The judge in President-elect Donald Trump's New York criminal hush money case indicated Friday that he intends to sentence ...

New Orleans city leaders were warned in a 2019 confidential physical security assessment that Bourbon Street was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming attack.

Preliminary year-end statistics show that homicides in Detroit have dropped to levels not seen since before the mid-1960s ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas holidays ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an oil industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Street performers and football fans returned to New Orleans streets as the city inched back toward normalcy while mourning victims of the deadly New Year's rampage in which an Army ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county lockups vio ...

A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff ...

Matthew Livelsberger -- the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Las Vegas Hotel -- ...

The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S. warrant have grown ...