South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius cannot challenge his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a spokesman for the prosecuting authorities said on Thursday.
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A raid by a new U.S. Special Operations force recently sent to Iraq captured a significant Islamic State operative.
An Ohio man arrested for allegedly threatening President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made an initial appearance in federal court on Wednesday.
Former Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon died in a car crash on Wednesday, one day after being indicted by a federal grand jury on bid rigging charges.
The first major abortion case in a decade goes to a divided U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday.
It began as a scene most parents and adolescents have experienced: it’s time to get up for school, but the teenager resists leaving the comfort of bed. For a family in Nashville, this fight escalated to a violent extreme.
The U.S. Transportation Department announced on Wednesday it has banned the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights.
Three San Francisco sheriff’s deputies were charged with arranging “Fight Club” duels between jail inmates, and one of the deputies made prisoners gamble for food, clothing and bedding, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed late Monday night in the Kazakhstan desert, NASA and Russian mission control said.
A 14-year-old Michigan girl, who was seriously wounded during a series of shootings in Kalamazoo that took six lives, has been upgraded to fair condition, according to a Go Fund Me page set up by a family friend.
FBI Director James Comey defended the agency’s legal pursuit of access to suspects’ digital information, including that of an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, but he faced some skeptical lawmakers on Capitol Hill who worried about cases setting a precedent that would jeopardize privacy.
A Republican Governor vetoed a bill that would have dictated what bathrooms bathrooms transgender students are allowed to use.
A 19-year-old man was arrested in Beaumont, Texas, Monday night for firing a gun at the campaign office of an African-American candidate running for sheriff in the same town, according to police.
Two 14-year-olds are in custody without bond after a fellow student accused the boys of raping her at a Hot Springs, Arkansas, high school.
A Raleigh, North Carolina, police officer on Monday killed a man who was fleeing arrest, authorities said, and a local TV station reported protesters chanting “black lives matter” gathered at the scene.
