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The toddler, Katera Barker, died after being left in her father's hot car all day, police said.

A doctor appeared at her bedside and said, “I understand you have the ability to officiate weddings?”

President Trump granted a posthumous pardon Thursday to boxer Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, who was jailed in 1913 for violating a Jim Crow-era law that made it illegal to transport a white woman across state lines…

New data provides a detailed, county-level look at the rising toll of suicide.

“Just get the kids back inside!” Del Ray Police Officer Rob Addea said to the woman on the ledge.

Scientists see real-time studies of the active volcano, which is threatening Hawaii’s Big Island, as an “amazing opportunity.”

For almost a week, we have been watching a cluster of showers and thunderstorms in the Caribbean for signs it might develop into something more menacing. Now it seems that is likely within the next five days as it tracks north over the…

In 2012, Hope Cheston was sexually assaulted by an armed security guard at an apartment complex near Atlanta while she was visiting a friend, according to court records. She was 14.

Twenty years ago, he swam across the Atlantic Ocean. This time, he'll have to survive sharks and the world's largest trash collection.

What began as frustrated swipes at the press during earnings calls last year blossomed into full-blown fury when the billionaire inventor lashed out against the “holier-than-thou” media on Twitter.

Rookie Sterling Brown was arrested in January and will reportedly file a civil rights lawsuit over the incident.

The office is at the center of some of the Justice Department's biggest cases, including the WikiLeaks investigation.

Since it was announced Wednesday, the NFL’s new policy requiring players to stand for the national anthem on the field or wait in the locker room, has done little to quell the debate that has grown into one of the country’s most divisive…

Officials promised that academic performance would improve when nearly 12,000 kids were moved over five years. Here's what happened.

"Blah, blah, blah” is how Police Chief Art Acevedo described Dana Loesch's comments about him on NRATV.

Something very, very different is going on at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The tweets that got users barred from Trump's Twitter and produced a novel First Amendment court ruling.

When pressed for her position on immigration enforcement during a House committee hearing, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said the question of whether school administrators could call ICE was a local community decision.

It is not clear whether the Texas woman will face criminal charges for her accusations, which spread on social media.

The change cannot be fully explained by gender differences in smoking behavior, according to researchers.

The San José, which sunk off the coast of Colombia in 1708, stands as one of the most expensive maritime losses in history.

Britt Slabinski received the award for actions in 2002, but the status of a Medal of Honor case for a U.S. airman who served with him is unclear.

Brian Schumacher and Janet Veit had been posting photos from their adventures — showing the pair posing behind a cutout of Viking explorers or simply capturing their view of a breathtaking waterfall. The Minnesota couple, who were both fly…

The case of an Upstate New York man evicted by his parents seems to have struck a chord as an extreme example of a phenomenon demographers have been tracking for years: growing rates of young adults, particularly young men, living in their…

It’s only been a few weeks since operators moved NOAA’s newest satellite into position in space and started testing its data, but a problem was immediately apparent. The satellite’s primary weather-monitoring instrument — the Advanced…

White House officials last year weighed whether they should develop “a coherent, fact-based message about climate science,” according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

Under the Obama administration, the National Park Service said Alaska rules that allow shooting caribou from motorboats and airplanes, killing bear cubs with their mothers and shooting wolf pups in their dens were illegal on federal lands…

Sens. Patrick Toomey and Jeff Merkley want the FCC to disclose how many fraudulent comments it received in the run-up to the vote to dismantle net neutrality.