US has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, US official says

Tennessee prosecutors have released video of National Guard troops pointing their handguns at a man as he lay dying on a Memphis sidewalk last summer after a guard member shot him in the back

Parts of a business jet likely started to break off before the aircraft crashed in South Florida, killing nine people

A onetime West Point cadet drugged his pregnant girlfriend in her barracks, gave her abortion pills while she was knocked out and caused a miscarriage

A chaotic climate phenomenon called El Niño is intensifying heavy rains and floods in the Southwest

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its alleged failure to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions

The president of the International Criminal Court has accused the Trump administration of trying to obstruct international justice by imposing penalties on the tribunal and has vowed that it would not succeed

Indiana’s governor turned down a clemency request and says an execution planned for Thursday will go forward against a man who killed his girlfriend’s two children in 2010

The victims of a Sunday plane crash in Florida included a 20-year-old woman who got her pilot's license while still in high school and a technology entrepreneur and his family