An elementary school in Georgia is facing backlash over a display depicting "appropriate" and "inappropriate" hairstyles for students. All of the children featured on the poster — taken down Thursday, the same day it had…

WASHINGTON — Two mass shootings within just 24 hours have called into question the amount of resources that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have devoted to spotting and thwarting the threat…

The trip to Walmart was supposed to be fun: an excuse for David Johnson and his wife, Kathy, to take their 9-year-old granddaughter, Katie Melendez, to pick out some new outfits that she had her…

The Florida man who pleaded guilty to sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump last year was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Cesar Sayoc, an ardent…

A month before a gunman murdered 20 people in an El Paso Walmart, a grandmother was able to stop another potential mass shooting in Texas — by her grandson. William Patrick Williams, a 19-year-old from…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump condemned “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” in a televised address to the nation Monday after a devastating and bloody weekend left at least 30 people dead in two mass shootings…

Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico's first unelected governor in seven decades, said courts should determine whether he’s the rightful leader to replace Ricardo Rosselló, who officially resigned as governor on Friday. "Although it is regrettable that…

For the first time in seven decades, an unelected governor is in charge of Puerto Rico. Pedro Pierluisi was sworn in during a private ceremony as the island's new governor seconds after embattled Gov. Ricardo…