An already close race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat reached a razor-thin margin as most counties completed final tallies from the Nov. 5 election. Democratic Justice Allison ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named his campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt to serve as his White House press secretary. The 27-year-old Leavitt would be the youngest White House press secret ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily limited the scope of a ruling that Louisiana’s law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in all classrooms next year is unconstitutional.

Samuel Woodward, who admitted to killing former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein and burying his body at the edge of a Lake Forest park in what ...

Officials say 12 decomposing bodies found inside a south Georgia funeral home have been identified. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Friday that it is still trying to identify another ...

Oklahoma’s top education official has no authority to force schools to show students a video of himself praying for incoming ...

Oklahoma's education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his ...

A newborn boy was found dead in a Los Angeles alleyway after police say he was dropped from the fourth-floor window of a building. The baby was found early Thursday ...

A Franciscan friar vowed to commit himself to poverty, like other friars in his order. But Pawel Bielecki broke his vow by stealing more than $560,000 he caused people to donate toward a non-existent ...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution, putting a decisive end to a legal battle that halted the scheduled execution of ...

Utility regulators in North Dakota have approved a carbon dioxide pipeline that would span five Midwestern states. Friday's decision by the state's Public Service Commission is a key victory for ...

Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader. The CIA, ...