FILE - This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The atto ey for Bergdahl, who was released in exchange for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay, says the soldier's case has been referred for trial by a general court-martial. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File) Army Sg...

March 16, 2016: Co er Lamb carries Luna, a 1 1/2-year-old dog that fell off a fishing boat in February, after Luna arrived by a Navy commuter flight at Naval Base Coronado in Califo ia. Luna was found Tuesday on San Clemente Island, a Navy-owned training base 70 miles off San Diego. (Hayne Palmour I...

With Marco Rubio dropping out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday, the Florida senator leaves a large cache of delegates behind. So what happens to them, and the delegates of other former candidates, at the convention in Cleveland? The short answer is: It varies from state to state, but the ...

LOS ANGELES – Frank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father's legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father's legendary life, died Wednesday. He was 72. The younger Sinatra died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona...

The State Department will miss a congressionally mandated deadline to decide whether to call ISIS atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities a genocide, a spokesman said Wednesday. The March 17 deadline was set as part of the 2015 omnibus gove ment spending bill. A resolution passe...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama levied sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday in response to the reclusive country's recent "illicit" nuclear and ballistic missile tests. The sanctions blocks certain transactions on property belonging to the North Korean gove ment and to the Workers' Party o...

Less than a month after becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for gove ment business, Hillary Clinton’s team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her BlackBerry in secure faciliti...

With Marco Rubio dropping out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday, the Florida senator leaves a large cache of delegates behind. So what happens to them, and the delegates of other former candidates, at the convention in Cleveland? The short answer is: It varies from state to state, but the ...

With Marco Rubio dropping out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday, the Florida senator leaves a large cache of delegates behind. So what happens to them, and the delegates of other former candidates, at the convention in Cleveland? The short answer is: It varies from state to state, but the ...

The NRA and other pro-Second Amendment groups came out strongly Wednesday against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, wa ing that Judge Merrick Garland would threaten gun rights while citing his role in a landmark firearms case. “President Obama has nothing but contempt for the Second Amendment...

Lifelong atheist Patrick Greene has a huge problem with a giant cross under construction alongside Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi, Texas – a city whose name literally means “Body of Christ.” “It’s tacky as hell,” Mr. Greene told me. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: A must-read for Conse...

Henderson Municipal Judge Diana Hampton was known by colleagues as a hard worker and appeared to be the perfect picture of health. (Courtesy City of Henderson) An ex-stripper who went on to law school and later was elected a judge was found dead inside her Nevada home Sunday, The Las Vegas Review-Jo...

Less than a month after becoming secretary of state, and registering the personal email domain that she would use exclusively for gove ment business, Hillary Clinton’s team aggressively pursued changes to existing State Department security protocols so she could use her BlackBerry in secure faciliti...

Lifelong atheist Patrick Greene has a huge problem with a giant cross under construction alongside Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi, Texas – a city whose name literally means “Body of Christ.” “It’s tacky as hell,” Mr. Greene told me. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: A must-read for Conse...

President Obama named federal appeals judge Merrick Garland on Wednesday as his pick to succeed Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court – setting up a showdown with Republicans who have vowed to block the choice. Obama, who said he went through a rigorous and comprehensive screening process, said G...

Dec. 15, 2015: Mary Tho 's pet alligator named Rambo is seen, in Lakeland, Fla. (AP/Mary Tho ) A Florida woman was fighting Wednesday to keep her 6-foot-long clothes-wearing, motorcycle-riding pet alligator in her home. The 125-pound reptile named Rambo even has a bedroom in Mary Tho 's home in Lake...

Henderson Municipal Judge Diana Hampton was known by colleagues as a hard worker and appeared to be the perfect picture of health. An ex-stripper who went on to law school and later was elected a judge was found dead inside her Nevada home Sunday, The Las Vegas Review-Jou al reported. Her body was d...

President Obama named federal appeals judge Merrick Garland on Wednesday as his pick to succeed Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court – setting up a showdown with Republicans who have vowed to block the choice. Obama, who said he went through a rigorous and comprehensive screening process, said G...

Dec. 15, 2015: Mary Tho 's pet alligator named Rambo is seen, in Lakeland, Fla. (AP/Mary Tho ) A Florida woman was fighting Wednesday to keep her 6-foot-long clothes-wearing, motorcycle-riding pet alligator in her home. The 125-pound reptile named Rambo even has a bedroom in Mary Tho 's home in Lake...

Donald Trump revved his already surging momentum with a big string of primary victories Tuesday night, narrowing the field as he expanded his delegate lead – while still facing a challenge from the two remaining competitors. The Republican front-ru er came away from Tuesday’s contests with at least ...