Students and the principal of a suburban Phoenix high school are under fire after a photo of a students spelling out a racial slut with T-shirts went viral. Tempe Union High School District spokeswoman Jill Hanks said Friday that the discipline process remains ongoing but six girls will be punished ...

Feb. 14, 2015. Charlotte Rampling holds the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in 45 years after the award ceremony at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. (The Associated Press) The simmering controversy over this year’s all-white list of Oscar nominees has created a wedge in...

Pictured from left to right are the inmates who escaped from a Southe Califo ia prison: Bac Duong, Hossein Nayeri, and Jonathan Tieu. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP) Three inmates made a daring escape from a Southe Califo ia maximum-security jail by cutting through half-inch steel bars a...

Businessman Donald Trump hinted Saturday he might decide to sue rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over the legality of his U.S. citizenship. “Ted has a lot of problems – number one Canada. He could run for the Prime Minister of Canada and I wouldn’t even complain because he was bo in Canada, it’s a serious ...

A once-in-a-lifetime blizzard, packing hurricane-force winds, brought much of the East Coast to a crippling halt Saturday, dumping an upwards of 3 feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travelers and shutting down Washington, D.C. and New York City. At least 18 deaths were blamed on weather-re...

Businessman Donald Trump hinted Saturday he might decide to sue rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over the legality of his U.S. citizenship. “Ted has a lot of problems – number one Canada. He could run for the Prime Minister of Canada and I wouldn’t even complain because he was bo in Canada, it’s a serious ...

Feb. 14, 2015. Charlotte Rampling holds the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in 45 years after the award ceremony at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. (The Associated Press) The simmering controversy over this year’s all-white list of Oscar nominees has created a wedge in...

Naylor, left, is pictured at age 14 in 1982. Naylor's age-progressed image, right, shows what he would have looked like 2012. In the fall of 1982, 14-year-old Daniel Naylor walked out of his parents' Fremont, Calif., home after a heated argument with his father and was never seen again -- leaving fa...

Pictured from left to right are the inmates who escaped from a Southe Califo ia prison: Bac Duong, Hossein Nayeri, and Jonathan Tieu. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP) Three inmates made a daring escape from a Southe Califo ia maximum-security jail by cutting through half-inch steel bars a...

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Marco Rubio each won a key endorsement Saturday from the Des Moines Register newspaper, eight days before the state holds its first-in-the nation voting caucus for president. "If there’s one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on this year, it’s the fact tha...

A once-in-a-lifetime blizzard, packing hurricane-force winds, brought much of the East Coast to a crippling halt Saturday, dumping an upwards of 3 feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travelers and shutting down Washington, D.C. and New York City. At least 18 deaths were blamed on weather-re...

DAVOS, Switzerland – A British judge's finding that Vladimir Putin was most likely behind the 2006 poisoning of a former Russian spy has added fuel to a London-based money man's quest for justice in another high-profile case. Hedge fund manager Bill Browder believes the Russian president's cronies s...

(Reuters) Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a 2016 independent presidential campaign, vowing to spend a $1 billion of his own cash, according to The New York Times. The billionaire politician purportedly sees an opportunity for a third-party victory, based on what he consid...

The giant snowstorm pummeling the East Coast caused 17 deaths Saturday and forced New York's gove or to issue a road travel ban and to halt suburban trains and some city subway lines. Three people in New York City died while shoveling snow in different parts of town, NYPD Chief of Department James O...

Marvin Jacob Lee (Catawba County Sheriff’s Department) A Good Samaritan was shot and killed in North Carolina when he tried to help a motorist stranded as a massive snowstorm pummeled the East Coast, it was reported Saturday. Marvin Jacob Lee’s car spun out on an icy, snow-covered road in Bandys aro...

n this photo taken July 16, 2015, a welcome sign on the village green, Whitesboro, N.Y., displays the village seal. (Observer-Dispatch via AP) An upstate New York village has decided to change its official logo Friday weeks after residents decided to keep it despite critics calling it a racist emble...

An American university student who was recently detained by North Korea is being held over an undisclosed incident at his hotel before he was scheduled to board a flight to Beijing, a China travel agency said Saturday. North Korea said it had detained Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student,...

File-This May 9, 2011, file photo shows Kansas House Pensions and Benefits Committee Chairman Mitch Holmes, a St. John Republican, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP) A Kansas lawmaker came under fire Thursday from female legislators after he imposed a dress code that prevents women testifying on...

Tens of millions of residents from Georgia to New Jersey have embraced the ste wa ings and forecasted snow falls and have hunkered down as the brunt of the blizzard could dump 2 feet or more of snow in some areas. Though snow started to fall in some areas on Friday, the worst of the mammoth storm wa...

File-This May 9, 2011, file photo shows Kansas House Pensions and Benefits Committee Chairman Mitch Holmes, a St. John Republican, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP) A Kansas lawmaker came under fire Thursday from female legislators after he imposed a dress code that prevents women testifying on...