An explosive device was found Monday afternoon near George Soros’ home in New York state, though it was intercepted by a Soros employee and nobody was hurt.
Scammers are using Social Security’s customer service number in a “spoofing” scheme to try to steal information from Americans, the agency’s acting inspector general said in a new alert Monday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. on Monday launched a tip line via phone and email for survivors of child sexual abuse by clergy to report the crimes.
More Native American tribes will have access to the Justice Department’s national crime databases by the end of 2019, the department said Monday.
A California judge has ordered Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti to pay $4.85 million to an attorney at his former law firm.
Members of the illegal immigrant caravan chanted “si se pudo!” as they made their way north through Mexico Monday, having defied the will of one country and vowing to test the spine of another, the U.S., very soon.
A prominent lawyer and newspaper publisher who is tied to Bangladesh's political opposition has been arrested on defamation charges amid concern the government is acting tough on dissent ahead of national elections, police said Tuesday.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic woman who wants to be the next governor of Georgia, admitted Monday evening that she had burned the state flag at a protest when she was a college student.
The House majority leader became the latest victim of violent attacks Monday -- this time a rock being thrown into his home office. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, had his office in Bakersfield hit by two vandals, according to his official Instagram account.
A Colorado State University student who was shown on video being thrown face-first to the sidewalk by a police officer last year has been sentenced to probation.
Authorities have identified the man and woman killed in a shooting at a Missoula motel last week.
The Supreme Court stepped in Monday to block anti-Trump immigrant-rights activists and New York's attorney general from forcing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to sit for a deposition in the lawsuit over asking about citizenship on the 2020 census.
Authorities say a dozen people collaborated to smuggle nearly 4 million cigarettes from Virginia to New York City and resell them, dodging over $1.3 million in city and New York state taxes.
In any normal year, and with any normal candidate, Arizona's Senate race between a Republican former fighter pilot and a Democrat with a history of left-wing activism wouldn't even be a contest. But this isn't any year, and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat, isn't any candidate. Instead she's one of her party's best chances to capture a Republican-held Senate seat.
The nation's capital early next year joins a roster of cities across the country where self-driving cars are being tested amid the real-world conditions of everyday commuter traffic.
President Trump proudly declared himself a "nationalist" Monday night on everything from immigration to trade, fighting an international order that's unfair to the U.S.
A Florida city commissioner has resigned after being charged in the fatal shooting of a man he accused of shoplifting a hatchet from an Army-Navy surplus store.
Authorities say an intoxicated Utah man was pepper-sprayed and arrested at a Florida airport after fighting with an airline employee and a police officer.
President Trump is working hard to make the U.S.-bound migrant caravan into an election issue, but so far it's not resonating broadly with voters or forcing Democrats to play defense.
A Florida sheriff has agreed to pay about $25 million to a black man who became a quadriplegic after a deputy shot him, but the payment can only be made with the approval of state lawmakers.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, whose network is a frequent target of President Donald Trump's "fake news" barbs, called on him Monday to stop attacking on the media because he's afraid someone will get hurt.
A 15-year-old has been arrested after authorities said his made-up report of a gunman in a classroom led to a lockdown at his high school in New York's Hudson Valley.
The Latest on an Ecuadorian pizza deliveryman who was arrested again after being detained earlier this year (all times local):
An Illinois court has handed a 12-year prison sentence to a suburban Chicago man for an armed robbery two years ago.
A judge in North Las Vegas set a Dec. 10 preliminary hearing of evidence against a 41-year-old four-time felon held on murder and other charges in a shooting that left a mother and two of her adult children dead.
