John Edgar Rust, 26, was charged with making online threats to murder African Americans at Howard University.
Randall Woodfin, 36, a school board member and city prosecutor, on Tuesday won Birmingham, Alabama's mayoral election by connecting with young voters.
The Supreme Court is poised to change the course of American politics in a ruling about whether Wisconsin Republicans gave themselves an unfair advantage when remapping voting districts.
Detroit Lions majority owner Martha Firestone Ford reportedly pledged to donate money "to whatever cause players chose" if they do not kneel for the National Anthem.
Eighteen-year-old Xavier Olesko thought he was going to hang out with three acquaintances on the evening of September 18. Instead, he was shot to death in a northwestern suburb of Fort Worth, Texas.
Lawyers for the five women last week filed a class-action lawsuit against former LaRue County High School Principal Stephen Kyle Goodlett, 37, and the Kentucky county’s school district.
The U.S. and Puerto Rico have a long and complicated relationship, and a new poll shows only a small majority of Americans realize Puerto Ricans are Americans.
Trump is trying to distract the nation from the travails of his administration.
NFL ratings dropped about 12 percent in the opening weekend, with analysts blaming everything from Hurricane Irma to viewer indignation over players protests of the National Anthem in support of free agent Colin Kaepernick.
In a case that is emblematic of how HIV criminalization unfairly impacts Black people and stigmatizes people living with HIV, Michael L Johnson, 25, was sentenced for infecting a man and endangering four others.
Baton Rouge police initially arrested Kenneth Gleason on drug charges.
A Virginia man accused Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd of using Hurricane Irma as an excuse to check evacuees for warrants.