Authorities say a missing Wisconsin girl’s parents were shot to death and that they believe she was in the home at the time. Police have been searching for 13-year-old Jayme Closs since early Monday, when deputies responding to a 911 call from her home in Barron found her parents, James and Denise Closs, dead in the house.
Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democratic candidate for Congress who is poised to become the first Somali-American elected to the U.S. House, has denounced claims that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud as “disgusting lies,” and says allegations of campaign finance violations are politically motivated.
First lady Melania Trump’s place was forced to land Wednesday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland after smoke was reported on board.
Hillary Clinton was seemingly unharmed when the Secret Service vehicle she was riding in was involved in a crash.
A senior FBI official lied to the Justice Department inspector general about accepting free tickets from a broadcast journalist for professional sports events, but the official will not be prosecuted.
The Honduran government called on 2,000 immigrants Tuesday to give up their trek north and return home, just hours after President Trump threatened to withhold $65 million in U.S. money if the country’s leaders don’t find a way to head off the caravan.
Despite his denials, President Trump is very much the center of the 2018 election, political pros say -- and the leader of the Republican Party will earn at least some of the blame should the GOP fail to hold its majorities in Congress.
Police say a Washington elementary school music teacher attacked a woman and dropped her off outside a fast-food restaurant where she passed out.
While other senators' votes got more attention, perhaps the most curious "No" vote on Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh came from Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama, a Democrat who represents one of the reddest states in the country but has been voting, at times, like a New England liberal.
The unsealed divorce records between Rep. Keith Ellison and his ex-wife Kim Ellison include charges of domestic abuse. But not what people might've been expecting.
The Latest on the arrest during a Republican campaign event of a man accused of battery by the manager of Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt's bid for governor (all times local):
Murder charges have been filed against a southern Illinois man in the shooting death of a Godfrey village official.
A former University of Colorado student shot by Boulder police in a 2014 standoff near campus is requesting for the charges against him to be dismissed, claiming officers violated his rights.
A candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court pleaded guilty more than nine years ago to trespassing and driving while impaired.
The State Bar of Arizona has dismissed a conflict-of-interest allegation against attorneys for a man charged in a fatal shooting at Northern Arizona University.
A white man who fired a shotgun at three African-Americans amid the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans more than 13 years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to two federal criminal counts.
A messy, partisan Senate confirmation fight may play the deciding role in Montana's too-close-to-call U.S. Senate race, but it may not be the fight that first comes to mind.
A notorious Philadelphia mob boss sentenced to two years in prison for illegal betting quipped outside court Wednesday that President Donald Trump was right to suggest cooperators or flippers should be outlawed.
Police have released officer body-worn camera video showing injured people packed into pickup truck beds and hundreds of people sheltering with blankets on the floor of a casino ballroom hours after last year's mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
A former alderman from Mississippi's third-largest city has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal charge of transporting child pornography.
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A federal judge has again delayed until next year the fraud trial of Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday she would support a new investigation into Justice Brett Kavanaugh should Democrats take control of the Senate in November's elections.
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is readying a new ad defending his decision to give police commemorative coins and his efforts to test sexual assault kits.
Authorities say a man stole a Florida sheriff's deputy's stun gun during a struggle and both became incapacitated when he pulled the trigger.
A teenager has been arrested in the shooting deaths of another teen and a man last month in central Pennsylvania.
