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Ex-Vanderbilt football player Banks guilty of aggravated rape

Over 40 pictures and three videos, taken on Banks', Batey's and Vandenburg's phones, were discovered by Nashville police detectives. The 23-year-old was f...

3 people killed in accident while headed to Cedar Point

The 21-year-old driver of the auto from Louisville, Kentucky was killed along with two passengers, a19-year-old woman and 25-year-old man. Police said Marietta ...

It Doesn't Make Sense To Have A Poor Person In Some Positions

President Trump's cabinet is worth $9.5 billion, the combined net worth of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined. He told the crowd that h...

US Warplane Shoots Down Armed Drone in Syria

The development comes as tensions rise in Syria with Russian Federation and Iran sending US warnings. The jihadists are under major pressure in Syria and neig...

Red Sox retire No. 34 for Ortiz

One honor mentioned at that time would be the retiring of his number during the summer and Friday marks the date that will happen. Ortiz joins 10 other former...

Senate passes new sanctions on Iran, Russia

The legislation now moves to the House of Representatives. The White House will reach out to House Republicans to bring changes favored by the Trump admin...

Mike Pence Hired a Personal Lawyer to Handle the Russia Investigation

Cullen previously served as Virginia attorney general and US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. As Philly.com reports: But other parts of his resum...

Tornado flattens buildings, flood threat lingers in southeast

On Friday , forecasters were trying to verify exactly how many tornadoes touched down in Alabama during Cindy's passage. The storm claimed the life of ...

What to expect in Cullman from Tropical Storm Cindy

A turn toward the northeast is expected. The last tropical system to make landfall on the Texas coast was Tropical Storm Bill in June 2015. Forecasters say ...

Supreme Court to hear major challenge to partisan gerrymandering

The court - after orders were released - issued a separate order granting Wisconsin's request to freeze the current maps until the Supreme Court hears the cas...

Two holdout jurors in Cosby trial

An alternate juror, who sat through all the testimony but was not involved in any of the deliberations, previously told NBC News that he would have voted to c...

Trump affects Virginia primaries, but not as expected

The biggest surprise was on the Republican side, where a well-connected frontrunner who has kept his distance from Trump squeaked out an uncomfortably close v...

Tropical Storm Cindy Downgraded to Tropical Depression

The weather service had issued tornado warnings earlier for the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas, and Gov. Kay Ivey had urged state residents to be alert for...

New US strategy demanded in Afghan war

He also said he will likely brief the committee on a new Afghanistan strategy by mid-July. Mr. Mattis acknowledged Tuesday the position White House nation...

House Dem: Pelosi's Time Has 'Come And Gone'

Several Democratic lawmakers have said Pelosi's position as a prominent face of the Democratic Party will continue to make winning elections hard. Ellison...

Sen. Franken Says Philando Castile 'Did Not Deserve To Die'

Two holdouts eventually agreed after five days. Protesters gather outside the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, June 16, 2017, after St. Anthony pol...

Crestfallen that Donald Trump rolling back detente: Cubans

In December 2014, Obama announced a historic deal to gradually rebuild the economic and diplomatic relationships between the two countries. In practice, how...

Philando Castile warned officer he was armed, video shows

Paul last Friday that attracted thousands and shut down Interstate 94 for hours. Here's a quick rundown of what's shown - and not shown - in the video . - Rad...

Dominique Heaggan-Brown Acquitted in Shooting Death of Sylville Smith

The Syville Smith shooting, and the two days of protests , was one of the biggest stories in Milwaukee previous year. Heaggan-Brown, also African American, p...

Authorities: Texas mom left 2 kids in hot vehicle as punishment

So she shut the door to teach them a lesson , according to deputies. According to the criminal complaint, Randolph initially told investigators she was insid...

U.S. doctors dispute North Korean coma story

The 22-year-old University of Virginia student was found guilty of committing a " hostile act " against North Korea in March 2016 and sentenced to 15 years...

Kim Kardashian Now Owns a Staple of Jackie Kennedy's Wardrobe

The former first lady's watch was auctioned off Wednesday at Christie's in New York City. According to TMZ , sources close to Christie's confirmed that Kim a...

GOP senators now oppose health bill - enough to sink it

Assuming every Democrat is a no vote, the GOP can't afford more than 2 of their own senators to vote against the bill. Some conservative and moderate GOP se...

Senate conservatives try to gain leverage over health care overhaul

Senator Toomey responded to the bill on Thursday, saying in a statement , "The draft bill unveiled in the Senate today strikes me as an important and const...

What The Man Who Ran Obamacare Thinks About the Republican Health Plan

Heller's announcement was fairly predictable, because he is one of the most vulnerable GOP senators in the 2018 elections and his support of a bill that appea...

Tropical Storm Cindy downgraded to tropical depression after landfall

Last June, torrential rains in West Virginia claimed 23 lives and memories of that disaster are still vivid. A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect through Th...

Nancy Pelosi: 'I'm worth the trouble.' Conservatives agree

The challenge for Democrats, as pointed in Politico's reporting , is that there are no viable candidates to challenge Pelosi and take over the leadership. That...

Critics of Senate health bill hope to sway GOP Sen. Cassidy

The Senate bill calls for a three-year period, from 2018-2021, during which states receive a combined $45 billion from the federal government to help " stabil...

Unmarked squad will still lead Pride parade, but officers can march

Castile, a black motorist, was fatally shot by former Minnesota police officer Yanez, a Latino. Twin Cities Pride executive director Dot Belstler wrote in a...

North Korea accuses US of 'smear campaign' over student's death

On Friday, ABC's Michael Strahan sat down with the onetime Chicago Bull to talk about the freakish trip, which coincided with the release of Otto Warmbier ...