A judge in Arizona has declared a mistrial in the case of a U.S. Border Patrol agent after a jury acquitted him of a second-degree murder charge in the killing of a teenager but deadlocked on lesser counts of manslaughter. The mistrial was called[...]

Even as private employers have rebounded from the recession, the public sector’s ranks have withered, and pay and benefits have lagged.OKLAHOMA CITY — The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory[...]

The suspect in the Waffle House mass shooting in Nashville once told the authorities he was a “sovereign citizen.” We examine the phrase.The suspect, who was identified by the authorities as Travis J. Reinking and taken into custody on Monday, was[...]

US appeals court rules in monkey case that lawsuits can't be filed claiming animals have copyrights to photos.SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. copyright law does not allow lawsuits that seek to give animals rights to photographs or other original work,[...]

A 19-year-old man accused of firing his gun inside a Florida high school last Friday said he carried out the shooting to “scare people” and did not intend to hurt anyone. Sky Bouche told FOX35 he fired his gun in the Forest High School[...]

<p>The man who snatched an AR-15 rifle from a gunman at a busy Tennessee restaurant says his was a "selfish" act of self-preservation and he doesn't consider himself a hero. Never mind that he is being credited with saving several[...]

Skeptics of the administration’s plans say there’s no need to duplicate an existing center.Trump directed Department of Homeland Security officials to effectuate his ideas, and in February the White House announced the creation of a National Vetting [...]

<p>Surrounded in her small Yorkville apartment by packing crates, household items and mounds of toys, Alyssa Tatar is calling upon all that character-building training she learned in her four years in the United States Marine Corps to remain[...]

Roughly 50 immigrants from Central America made it to the U.S.-Mexico border after traveling in a caravan of as many as 1,500 people.In a series of Monday morning tweets, the president said he'd told Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen[...]

Hate crimes targeting U.S. Muslims rose 15 percent in 2017, the second year of increases, according to a study released on Monday by advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group recorded 300 U.S. hate crimes targeting Muslims[...]

The FBI considers the sovereign citizen movement an extremist group. Tennessee Waffle House shooting suspect Travis Reinking has used that term to describe himself.Travis Reinking, 29, used that term — which the FBI has also used to describe a group [...]

Amid walkouts and an outcry over teacher pay, communities across the country are weighing help with housing to attract educators.For Alexandria Warfield, a 27-year-old music teacher at Thomas Gregg Neighborhood School in Indianapolis, living with[...]

An Alabama police department says it's investigating after video showed a black woman being knocked down by police and arrested inside a restaurant. The NAACP is calling the arrest troubling, and pickets stood outside the restaurant with signs.A [...]

Over a dozen members of the Theta Tau fraternity at Syracuse University have been suspended after a second video emerged.Load[...]

It is unclear whether Travis Reinking or his father violated any firearms laws in Illinois or Tennessee before the Waffle House shooting that left four dead.Load[...]