WASHINGTON - Colleges and universities could be more accountable to rape victims under legislation introduced Wednesday by a bipartisan group of senators.

An unidentified woman died onboard an U.S. Airways red-eye flight from Honolulu to Phoenix, authorities said Wednesday. The passenger, who was in her 50s, passed out sometime during the long flight and was pronounced dead by responders at the Sky ...

The U.S. Justice Department launched a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania State Police, alleging that the physical fitness tests the department gives as part of its application process are unfair to women.

Accompanied by her dogs, Jeanette D'Angelo was puttering around the upper floor of the East Boston house she has lived in for 20 years when the shouting began and she smelled smoke.

House Republicans have dug up emails from Lois Lerner in which the former IRS official refers to some in the Republican Party as “---holes” and "crazies" - an exchange they say shows her “animus” toward conservatives.

DETROIT - Police said an 8-year-old boy died after being shot at a home on the city's east side. Police said a bullet fired from outside went through a wall at about 1 a.m.

KANSAS CITY Mo (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took his criticism of congressional Republicans for confounding his agenda to a higher pitch on Wednesday, appealing to them to "stop just hatin' all the time.

Over the past several weeks, adults gathered in a Minneapolis courtroom to argue about whether one brawny man punched another brawny man at an Irish pub in San Diego on the night of October 12, 2006.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama embraced her family's African roots in a speech on Wednesday, telling a group of young Africans that the “blood of Africa” runs through her veins as she urged changing traditional beliefs on the worth of ...

Gov. Christie on Wednesday urged lawmakers to vote to overhaul New Jersey's "broken" criminal justice system, declaring that "we are nearly out of time to act.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A jury has acquitted a New Jersey detective in the fatal shooting of a driver during a case of road rage in Maryland.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 58-year-old man arrested this week on suspicion of trying to smother his terminally ill father at a nursing home after getting drunk could face fresh charges pending the outcome of an autopsy, a county prosecutor's office said on ...

WASHINGTON - The Air Force secretary says something obviously “fell through the cracks” in the security of a military cargo plane that allowed a young boy to stow away and die in a compartment near the landing gear.

Boulder gay marriage: The court ruling was in response to an appeal from Republican Attorney General John Suthers, who has been trying for several weeks to get Boulder's clerk to stop giving marriage licenses to gay couples until there's a definitive ruling ...