A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal

A Philippine senator wanted by the International Criminal Court has fled from the Senate, where he sought refuge to evade arrest

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled his final budget proposal

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one

More details are out after six people were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, Texas, last weekend

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma judge who ruled Thursday that Glossip could be freed from jail while awaiting a new trial for a 1997 killing

The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions

Voting rights groups are arguing that a federal judge should stop President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail voting because he doesn’t have the authority to do so

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers