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Apr 24, 2019
To the outside world, she appeared to be a member of a Texas family. But at home, the girl said, she was beaten and forced to cook, clean and care for children without pay.
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Apr 23, 2019
The court's ideological divide was on full display during arguments, with liberal justices appearing skeptical of the case offered by the administration.
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Apr 23, 2019
Paper forms are out. The Internet and mobile phones are in. Here's what you can expect for the latest decennial census.
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Apr 23, 2019
The father of the Sidwell student killed in an attack in Sri Lanka mourns what might have been.
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Apr 23, 2019
The 24-year-old Powerball winner recounted the story behind him winning the Powerball jackpot — the third-largest in U.S. history.
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Apr 23, 2019
Beginning in London, the climate change protests have spread to cities around the world, including New York and Los Angeles.
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Apr 23, 2019
The charges are a milestone in the government's battle against companies accused of ignoring the diversion of hundreds of millions of painkillers to the black market.
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Apr 23, 2019
A Washington state senator made the comment last week while debating a bill that would give nurses uninterrupted meals and breaks at work and protect them from mandatory overtime.
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Apr 23, 2019
"I was tired, and in the heat of argument on the Senate floor, I said some things about nurses that were taken out of context - but still they crossed the line," Sen. Maureen Walsh (R) said in a statement Monday.
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Apr 23, 2019
As it turns out, the two Connecticut Democrats aren't the first to submit to a drug screening in hopes of scoring political points.
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Apr 23, 2019
Teaching is highly complex, even though lots of people think otherwise.
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Apr 23, 2019
A tip led police to Mary Jane Stewart, who was charged with murder. But the case won't be going to trial.
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Apr 23, 2019
Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa is remembered as "brilliant," "kind" and "a wonderful child."
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Apr 22, 2019
Three-judge panel says the marking is a form of trespass that requires a warrant.
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Apr 22, 2019
Domestic producers have struggled to find buyers who will pay top dollar for a made-in-the-USA premium product.
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Apr 22, 2019
The community demanded law enforcement be more assertive. Now some are wondering if this is the inevitable result.
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Apr 22, 2019
The Sierra Club's annual guide to buying plug-in electric vehicles provides a user-friendly quiz to help you identify possible vehicles to buy.
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Apr 22, 2019
Police say a 31-year-old woman stormed the stage toward the end of the service and began waving a gun at congregants.
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Apr 22, 2019
The United States is on track to surpass the record number of measles cases in a single year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, according to new figures.
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Apr 22, 2019
Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of Roy Disney, called on the company that bears her name to give its employees a raise.
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Apr 22, 2019
When a dispute over a domain name stood between a social media entrepreneur and his plan for success, a violent plan was hatched.
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Apr 22, 2019
Congregants of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church are optimistic for the future.
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Apr 22, 2019
The lightning-like electrical discharge was seen Wednesday night.
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Apr 22, 2019
Justices will hear three cases that look at whether a federal law that forbids discrimination on the basis of sex is broad enough to encompass discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
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Apr 22, 2019
The document, obtained by The Washington Post, highlights how rapidly conditions are changing.
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Apr 22, 2019
Unable to attend the discussion, the high school journalists in Lexington, Ky., penned an editorial condemning the education secretary, writing, "We are student journalists who wanted to cover an event in our community featuring the Secretary of Education, but ironically, we couldn't get in without an invitation."
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Apr 22, 2019
Two competing theories have been floated: Either Tyus Byrd, who faced mass resignations when she was elected the city's first black mayor in 2015, was targeted, or the fires were set to cover up questionable financial activity that has recently faced scrutiny from state auditors.
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Apr 22, 2019
Manning must stay in jail on contempt of court for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, an appeals court ruled Monday.
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Apr 21, 2019
Farmers are planting less of the classics such as corn, potatoes, green beans and peas. In their place, new vegetables such as sweet potatoes and leafy greens are defining American farms.
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Apr 21, 2019
A video of the United Constitutional Patriots holding migrants against their has sparked outrage and rebukes by civil rights groups and New Mexico officials.
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Apr 21, 2019
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is a big fan of rock and roll in general and the Beatles in particular.
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Apr 21, 2019
A recent report commissioned by the Defense Department found that of all four branches, service members at Navy installations are at greatest risk for sexual assault.
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Apr 21, 2019
Throughout the country, librarians are grappling with how to preserve book culture while ensuring that knowledge — whether in print or digital form — is widely accessible.
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Apr 20, 2019
A Marine found the recording device on the Norfolk-based amphibious transport dock USS Arlington, an official told NBC News.
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Apr 20, 2019
In 2015, the inmates at Eastern New York Correctional Facility took on and defeated the team from Harvard University.
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Apr 20, 2019
A Marine found the recording device on the Norfolk-based amphibious transport dock USS Arlington, an official told NBC News.
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Apr 20, 2019
While keepers are never supposed to be in the same space as the tigers, they found themselves together in the Kansas zoo's outdoor habitat for reasons still under investigation.
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Apr 20, 2019
Farmers are planting less of the classics such as corn, potatoes, green beans and peas. In their place, new vegetables such as sweet potatoes and leafy greens are defining American farms.
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Apr 20, 2019
Abolishing Columbus Day is a trend gaining traction in states nationwide as Americans reckon with the colonization and harm intertwined with the explorer's legacy.
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Apr 20, 2019
Twenty years ago, two gunmen claimed the lives of 13 victims and marked the beginning of an era in which the United States has repeatedly been forced to reckon with the threat of school shootings.
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Apr 20, 2019
Smith and her rendition of "God Bless America" have been most closely associated in the sports world with the Philadelphia Flyers, who had a decades-long stretch of remarkable success in games preceded by her version.
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Apr 20, 2019
Findings from a study show that postpartum depression can vary in severity, which can affect the type of treatment a woman might need to recover.
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Apr 20, 2019
David and Louise Turpin tortured 12 of their 13 children for years, starving them, hitting them, depriving them of sleep and shackling them to furniture.
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Apr 19, 2019
Some say the policy, which gives financial fellowship support only for employers that don't discriminate based on gender or sexual orientation, is unfair to Christian groups.
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Apr 19, 2019
Ten schools alone received a total of $5.4 billion in GI Bill payments, with the University of Phoenix and DeVry and Strayer universities topping the list, according to the study.
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Apr 19, 2019
The Turpins tortured 12 of their 13 children for years. On Friday, a California court sentenced them to life in prison.
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Apr 19, 2019
A wave of measles cases has been traced to unvaccinated ultra-Orthodox Jewish children, who usually live in insular communities. During Passover, many families that usually keep the modern world at a distance go on public excursions.
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Apr 19, 2019
The upgrade puts Michael squarely in the list of powerful storms and one of only four Category 5s to hit the U.S. on record.
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Apr 19, 2019
The upgrade puts Michael squarely in the list of powerful storms and one of only four Category 5s to hit the U.S. on record.
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Apr 19, 2019
New research shows how social schedules and biological rhythms come into conflict along time zone borders.
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Apr 19, 2019
So much of what was reported about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold right after their April 20, 1999 attack on Columbine High School was wrong. But it made the killers anti-heroes.
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Apr 19, 2019
Allowing the rare artifact to end up in private ownership robs researchers and the public of the chance to learn from it, scientists say.
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Apr 19, 2019
When dozens of neighbors started to gather in front of the home to see Juliet, snapping photos and live-streaming off their cellphones, they each had the same question: What was an 18-foot-long snake doing on the roof?
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Apr 19, 2019
The upgrade puts Michael squarely on the list of elite storms and one of only four Category 5s to hit the United States.
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Apr 19, 2019
The average temperature for March recorded at the NOAA observatory in Utquiagvik was 18.6 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
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Apr 19, 2019
Some say the policy, which gives financial fellowship support only for employers that don't discriminate based on gender or sexual orientation, is unfair to Christian groups.
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Apr 18, 2019
Health officials identified three youths exposed to the severe respiratory virus but not yet vaccinated — violating the mandatory immunization order for four Zip codes in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Apr 18, 2019
The $353 million effort will test the idea that the best approaches to combat the drug crisis are well known but poorly implemented and coordinated.
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Apr 18, 2019
Sgt. 1st Class Kai Waters said she was terrorized, and bumped, by another driver, then stabbed the other driver when confronted at a gas station.
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Apr 18, 2019
The issue has grabbed the attention of many state-level Democrats, who have tried to eliminate pathways for parents to duck vaccinating their kids.
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Apr 18, 2019
Research shows students could have learned at hundreds of other schools what they learned at Ivies and their equivalents.
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Apr 18, 2019
The bill would make it harder for parents to opt their children out of vaccinations for measles in the wake of the state's worst outbreak in more than two decades.
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Apr 18, 2019
A California whodunit ends after 40 years thanks to new advances in DNA technology.
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Apr 18, 2019
Trump hasn't urged more vaccinations, yet.
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Apr 18, 2019
The 37-year-old from New Jersey allegedly had two containers of gasoline, two bottles of lighter fluid and butane lighters on Wednesday.
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Apr 18, 2019
The victim reportedly told police that the couple had confiscated his visa and driver's license and told him to return to their house the next day.
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Apr 18, 2019
After years of heartbreaking setbacks, researchers say they can restore immune systems in SCID babies.
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Apr 18, 2019
The victim reportedly told police that the couple had confiscated his visa and driver's license and threatened to send photos of the unwanted sexual encounter to his wife back in Mexico if he didn't return the next day.
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Apr 18, 2019
Josh Bratchley had no food or water. No one knew if he was alive or dead, if he had found an air pocket or drowned in the murky water.
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Apr 18, 2019
The religious right closed ranks around the vice president as some students, faculty and alumni expressed concern about his planned appearance at Taylor University in Upland, Ind.
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Apr 18, 2019
According to the indictment, the man arranged to meet escorts and prostitutes in cities like London and New York with the help of fabricated documents, before submitting reimbursement requests for them.
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Apr 18, 2019
Reporters Without Borders cites President Trump's anti-press rhetoric and threats against journalists for the continuing decline. The U.S. ranking fell three spots from 2018, continuing a downward trend that began in 2016.
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Apr 18, 2019
Dozens of medical professionals, mostly in Appalachia, are accused of illegally dispensing 32 million pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving them opioids.
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Apr 18, 2019
A massive manhunt for 18-year-old Sol Pais led Colorado schools to close days before the 20th anniversary of the Columbine school schooting.
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Apr 17, 2019
Chicago police are investigating reports of issues with the vehicles.
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Apr 17, 2019
But instead of hurting others, authorities say, 18-year-old Sol Pais killed herself.
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Apr 17, 2019
Dozens of medical professionals, mostly in Appalachia, are accused of illegally dispensing 32 million pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving them opioids.
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Apr 17, 2019
The appearance of snails, whales and snakes has raised concerns that California's coastal ecosystem has been permanently scrambled.
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Apr 17, 2019
No ocean predator is more fearsome in the public imagination than the great white shark, but even they appear to steer clear of orcas, which have been observed on rare occasions to eat shark livers.
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Apr 17, 2019
The suburban district became a battleground over accommodating students in locker rooms and restrooms.
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Apr 17, 2019
Politicians, celebrities and journalists publicized the GoFundMe campaign and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Apr 17, 2019
Dozens of medical professionals are accused of illegally dispensing 32 million pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving them opioids.
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Apr 17, 2019
Chicago police are investigating reports of issues with the vehicles.
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Apr 17, 2019
It emitted a massive green flash. "I was just gobsmacked when I saw it," said an eyewitness.
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Apr 17, 2019
Decision follows a bitter fight over a name that detractors said was racist.
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Apr 17, 2019
It's about charter schools.
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Apr 17, 2019
Following a months-long debate marked by increasingly rancorous charges and countercharges, board members of the Dixie School District voted to replace the name, which opponents said is a racist vestige of the Confederacy and the proslavery South.
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Apr 17, 2019
Decision follows a bitter fight over a name that detractors said was racist.
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Apr 17, 2019
Texas has seen 29 $100 million or costlier hail storms in the past 25 years.
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Apr 17, 2019
For over a year, a California sheriff's office struggled to identify a corpse that was found in a river. Officials in Washington have now confirmed that it belonged to a man who allegedly decapitated his girlfriend with a samurai sword.
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Apr 17, 2019
Politicians, celebrities and journalists publicized the GoFundMe campaign and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Apr 17, 2019
Sol Pais, an 18-year-old who harbored an 'infatuation' with the 1999 Columbine shooting, was found dead in the mountains 40 miles west of the high school.
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Apr 17, 2019
Politicians, celebrities and journalists on Twitter publicized the GoFundMe campaign Tuesday and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Apr 17, 2019
Politicians, celebrities and journalists on Twitter publicized the GoFundMe campaign Tuesday and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Apr 17, 2019
Jokes ranged from using Tasers or other force on inmates to planting drugs on them or putting them into "the box," a reference to a type of solitary confinement.
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Apr 17, 2019
Tuesday night's meteor was so bright that weather satellites detected it as it burned apart in Earth's atmosphere.
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Apr 17, 2019
The violent encounter was an attempt to illustrate the meaning of the crucifixion. The lesson, the pastor allowed, "went too far."
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Apr 17, 2019
With an increasingly close election on the horizon, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — a global figure of welcome for refugees — is signaling plans to crack down.
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Apr 17, 2019
"I kept asking myself, 'Why didn't I see what I needed to see?'" said coach Juan Gaytan.
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Apr 17, 2019
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has a "zero tolerance" policy for fecal contamination in poultry and meat-processing plants, but this applies only if the fecal contamination is visible.
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