The recount underway in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race marks the end of a chaotic post-election period that has become the latest example of how disputed election rules can expose weak points in a core function of American democracy

The trial has begun for a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape him at a New Hampshire youth center in the 1990s

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial against the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley

A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term

A man who officials say carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan has been charged with three counts of murder

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency tells lawmakers she has encouraged the agency’s inspector general to review whether an employee was acting alone when directing workers helping hurricane victims to avoid homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump

An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal’s death

When the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development traveled to housing sites around the country, she heard from renters in affordable housing that they felt forgotten and left out of the nation’s transition to clean energy

The White House's Christmas tree is slated to be cut and transported from a North Carolina farm on Wednesday