The team's nickname, which some consider a derogatory term for Native Americans, has faced a barrage of criticism. Local leaders and pundits have called for a name change.
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A former hedge fund manager at a Connecticut firm was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison Thursday for insider trading by a judge who said he could not understand how someone making $3 million to $4 mi
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Joanne Chesimard, a left-wing militant who shot a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike 40 years ago Thursday, has become the first woman on the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
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Two airplanes taxiing while preparing for takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport clipped each other, leaving one of the planes with a portion of its left wing ripped away.
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Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the reason many women do not report rapes or domestic abuse is because they are afraid they will be “raped again by the system.”
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Police used "flash bangs" and pepper spray against some protesters who pelted them with rocks and bottles late Wednesday, as violence erupted during May Day in Seattle.
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The FBI has released new images of three men the bureau is seeking for additional information related to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya...
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Plans to overhaul neglected sites on Washington's National Mall with lakeside gardens, grassy amphitheaters and restaurants with views of the nation's memorials ar...
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A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media s
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Just hours before one of the Boston Marathon suspects and his brother allegedly gunned down a campus police officer, authorities say he exchanged a series of text messages with ...
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