A Maine state legislator who was barred from the House floor over a social media post about a transgender athlete in girls' sports has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved.

New York City police on Monday said they arrested and charged a man who defiled a dead man's corpse on the subway earlier this month.

Shrimp is payday food for many, but Raul Ortega figured out how to make the shrimp taco affordable by using fewer shrimp while optimizing flavor. At Mariscos Jalisco, Ortega's food truck in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, the tacos de camaron, or shrimp tacos, are the main attraction.

A largest-of-its-kind study found that more than 10% of women who terminate their pregnancies with abortion pills experience serious health problems.

A recent study finds that 15% of children and teenagers spend at least nine hours per day using smart devices for non-academic purposes, putting them at risk of behavioral addiction problems requiring professional intervention.

The trial of a former Michigan police officer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a 26-year-old Black man is set to begin in Grand Rapids, three years after the case sparked weeks of protest and national outrage.

The textile mills that once served as the backbone of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, have long been shuttered, and officials believed federal money would be key to the town's overdue revitalization. They hoped an improved stormwater drainage system and secured electrical wires - funded through a program to help communities protect against natural disasters ...

A trial began Monday in Paris over the 2016 heist in which armed robbers tied up Kim Kardashian in her bedroom and stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry during Fashion Week.

How some Republican women look is now facing backlash, as media outlets seize on the rise of the "GOP aesthetic" as a symbol of deeper political tensions.

The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not take up a challenge to California laws banning gun shows on public property.

Federal authorities in Colorado Springs, Colorado, detained and questioned more than a dozen active-duty soldiers early Sunday after a raid on a underground nightclub frequented by members of the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua street gangs.

The Supreme Court announced Monday it would take up a legal battle over whether Whole Foods must be part of a case against one of its products, which claimants say caused autism in their son.

The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not take up Karen Read's challenge to her second murder trial over the death of her ex-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe.

Authorities said they arrested a second suspect in the theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's purse in the District after tracking down the illegal immigrant in Miami.

A Catholic diocese wants to stop New Jersey from trying to empanel a grand jury to investigate allegations of clergy sexual abuse, with arguments before the state's high court set for Monday.

One person has died and at least a dozen people were injured Sunday when a boat crashed into a ferry off the Memorial Causeway Bridge and then fled the scene, authorities said.

A shooting in the popular South Carolina tourist town of Myrtle Beach left 11 people wounded, and police fatally shot one person, authorities said.

Horror movies are often one-week wonders at the box office, but Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" is defying the odds and proving to be true event cinema.

Drag performer Bianca Castro-Arabejo, who was known as reality television star Jiggly Caliente on "RuPaul's Drag Race," died Sunday at age 44, days after her family reported hospitalization for a serious infection.

Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin's Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom from another room.

One of the suspects in the armed robbery of Kim Kardashian said he plans to take responsibility for his role in the 2016 high-profile heist and will apologize in court as the trial begins Monday in Paris.

Elon Musk spent years building cachet as a business titan and tech visionary, brushing aside critics and skeptics to become the richest person on the planet.

Steven Spielberg proclaimed "The Godfather" the "greatest American film ever made," Robert De Niro teasingly bemoaned being cast in the sequel and not the original and Harrison Ford fought back tears reflecting on his role in the 1974 film, "The Conversation."

A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic's most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.

An Allegiant Air jet scheduled to take off from Pinellas County, Florida, on Friday deplaned onto the runway after a flight attendant found a written bomb threat.