The statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was moved from its prominent place on the University of Texas campus in Austin on Sunday, according to footage published on social media and by local Austin American-Statesman newspaper.
For two months they were submerged under the ocean’s surface, much of that time far below a solid mass of ice.
Apparently, slot machine players were onto something. The games have gotten tighter.
The co-founders of Boxed, Blue Apron, and Nature Box — three startups with a combined valuation of more than $2 billion — all graduated from the same high school.
A group called the Texas Nationalist Movement fanned out to 31 cities across Texas this weekend trying to gather the 75,000 signatures they say they need to get the question of the state’s secession from the United States on the primary ballot next spring.
Hulk Hogan says his history of using the n-word isn’t evidence of racism. It’s a byproduct of his upbringing.
Five more California inmates have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease at San Quentin State Prison, as officials work to determine the source of the outbreak and minimize its spread, the state corrections department said on Sunday.
President Obama’s decision to remove former President William McKinley’s name from the nation’s highest peak isn’t soaring to great heights with everyone. Specifically, Republican Ohio lawmakers.
UNLV’s football team released its depth chart for Saturday’s 4:30 p.m. PDT season opener at Northern Illinois.
Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary.
If you missed the MTV Music Video Awards on Sunday night, don’t fear, as the night’s winners were no surprise to many and Miley Cyrus’ hosting was almost what you would expect from the eccentric pop star. Following a trend of the last few years, the show didn’t go on without surprises and at times uncomfortable moments.
The deputy never saw the man who walked up behind him and shot him in the head before unloading an entire 14-round magazine into his body, a Harris County, Texas, prosecutor said Monday.
For most of us Earthlings, the photos of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover reveal little more than a desolate red landscape inhabited mostly by rocks. Lots and lots of rocks. But to the more, er, imaginative minds in our midst, these are no ordinary rocks. They’re signs of alien life on the planet next door.
UFC women’s strawweight contenders Tecia Torres and Michelle Waterson have agreed to fight at UFC 194 on Dec. 12 at MGM Grand, sources close to the organization confirmed Monday.
The fatal brain-eating amoeba has struck once again, this time claiming the life of a 14-year-old star athlete
We’ve all heard that cats have nine lives and Opie is no exception. Early Thursday morning a stray bullet went through a window in Angelica Sipe’s home. “It took me a second to realize what just happened. The first thing I did was check on my son and he was sound asleep. Then I saw my cat on the floor and that’s when I realized my cat was shot,” said Sipe.
Adriana had her pimp’s name tattooed on her chest at 14 years old. “It lets other pimps know that this is their property,” said Vice Sgt. Ron Fisher of the Los Angeles Police Department in Van Nuys. Police and anti-trafficking advocates are seeing those brands on girls more and more in recent years.
Actor Kyle Jean-Baptiste, who made history as the first African-American to play the lead role in a Broadway production of “Les Miserables,” died Friday night in New York.
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed in a 7-Eleven parking lot early Monday, according to North Las Vegas police.
In a major breakthrough in the battle against cancer, researchers believe they’ve found a way to retrain cancerous cells to die in the same way healthy cells do.
Ice cream shop Baskin-Robbins turns 70 on August 31, and participating stores will be dishing out cheap ice cream scoops to get you in on the action. To celebrate, scoops will be $1.31 each — a reference to their 31 legacy flavors.
The iconic columns of a temple with historic significance in Palmyra, Syria, are still standing despite an explosion there Sunday, the antiquities chief in Syria, Maamoun Abdulkarim, said Monday.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus and a small group of House colleagues put “soft diplomacy” to practice on overseas trips this summer to countries still getting used to the idea of democracy.