North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory filed suit Monday against the Department of Justice in a bid to preserve the state’s controversial “bathroom” law, after the Obama administration said the policy violates the civil rights of transgender people. The state was facing a Monday deadline set by the adminis...

NEW YORK – The U.S. Military Academy has launched an inquiry into a photo showing 16 black, female cadets in uniform with their fists raised, an image that has spurred questions about whether the gesture violates military restrictions on political activity. West Point is looking into whether the pho...

Donald Trump strategist Paul Manafort argued Sunday that Trump hasn’t misled supporters by saying during the Republican primaries that he was a self-funded candidate who “couldn’t be bought” and now trying to raise money for the general election. Manafort told “Fox News Sunday” that Trump made the a...

The number of U.S. Army soldiers on active duty has been reduced to its lowest since 1940, according to a published report. The Army Times reported this weekend that the Army's endstrength for March was 479,172. That's 154 fewer soldiers than the service's previous post-World War II low, which was r...

Great white shark Mary Lee has travelled more than 34,000 miles since September 2012. (OCEARCH) The Jersey Shore’s most celebrated guest made a spring retu on Friday. And, no, it’s not Snooki. Related Image Expand / Contract Mary Lee was first seen near New Jersey in May 2015. (OCEARCH) Mary Lee, a ...

The number of U.S. Army soldiers on active duty has been reduced to its lowest since 1940, according to a published report. The Army Times reported this weekend that the Army's endstrength for March was 479,172. That's 154 fewer soldiers than the service's previous post-World War II low, which was r...

A prisoner stands at his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. (AP) A Justice Department division will no longer refer to people released from prison as “felons” or “convicts” because of the stigmatizing effects of the terms, an agency official a ounced in a Washington Post edito...

MEXICO CITY – Questions arose on both sides of the border about the decision to relocate convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a region that is one of his cartel's strongholds, and a Mexican security official acknowledged Sunday that the sudden transfer was to a less-secure prison. The of...

Donald Trump strategist Paul Manafort argued Sunday that Trump hasn’t misled supporters by saying during the Republican primaries that he was a self-funded candidate who “couldn’t be bought” and now trying to raise money for the general election. Manafort told “Fox News Sunday” that Trump made the a...

A prisoner stands at his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. (AP) A Justice Department division will no longer refer to people released from prison as “felons” or “convicts” because of the stigmatizing effects of the terms, an agency official a ounced in a Washington Post edito...

Great white shark Mary Lee has travelled more than 34,000 miles since September 2012. (OCEARCH) The Jersey Shore’s most celebrated guest made a spring retu on Friday. And, no, it’s not Snooki. Related Image Expand / Contract Mary Lee was first seen near New Jersey in May 2015. (OCEARCH) Mary Lee, a ...

Rodney Alejandro worked from 2004 to 2010 at Robert Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts and Technology in Long Island City and was fired after his state license expired, officials said A former Queens biology teacher who allegedly forced an underage student to repeatedly have sex and demanded she h...

This 80-year-old great-gra y got a gun and wasn’t afraid to use it. Barb Moles shot and killed a home intruder who beat her husband with a crowbar and stabbed him with a knife. She now tells a local televison station she is “not just the typical gra y.” “You know, never in my whole life did I ever a...

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to nudge his fiscal policies -- including those on taxes and the minimum wage -- closer to the center ahead of the general election, while downplaying a lack of party support for his candidacy. Trump suggested on ABC’s “This Week” ...

Former Pe State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30-60 years back in October 2012. Pe State's legal settlements with Jerry Sandusky's accusers cover alleged abuse dating to 1971, which was 40 years before his arrest, the university said Sunday, providing the first confirmatio...

Rodney Alejandro worked from 2004 to 2010 at Robert Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts and Technology in Long Island City and was fired after his state license expired, officials said A former Queens biology teacher who allegedly forced an underage student to repeatedly have sex and demanded she h...

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to nudge his fiscal policies -- including those on taxes and the minimum wage -- closer to the center ahead of the general election, while downplaying a lack of party support for his candidacy. Trump suggested on ABC’s “This Week” ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta – Officials said Sunday they reached a tu ing point in fighting an enormous wildfire, hoping to get a "death grip'" on the blaze that devastated Canada's oil sands town of Fort McMurray amid cooler temperatures. Meanwhile, a massive evacuation of residents displaced by the bla...

Gary Simpson and Carlie Marie Trent. (Te essee Bureau of Investigation, Rogersville Police Dept.) Authorities in Te essee said Saturday that a reward for information leading to the safe recovery over a missing 9-year-old girl has been set at $12,500. The Te essee Bureau of Investigation said law enf...

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said Sunday that he will comply with the Justice Department’s Monday deadline to either scrap its transgender bathroom law or face legal action and risk losing federal funds. “I’ll make a decision in 24 hours,” the Republican gove or told “Fox News Sunday.” However, M...