When federal prosecutors want to seek the death penalty in a case, like they do in the Dylann Roof murder trial, they have to ask a confidential group of federal officials for the go ahead.
The latest news as tens of thousands of people slip into Europe and head to wealthy European Union countries in search of a better life. All times local.
Poland's new government has approved a program of family bonuses that is intended to reverse the declining birth rate.
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has dismissed the country's security minister after an Islamic State-claimed suicide bombing killed 12 members of the presidential guard last week.
Abortion clinics in South Carolina could pay hundreds more annually for state inspections.
South Carolina lawmakers and military advocates are beginning work to help the state's veterans get the assistance they need.
The European Space Agency is postponing the launch of probe that will test technology for a future mission to measure gravitational waves.
The latest news from the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:
A boy who was taken from his Alabama home by his father in 2002 and raised in Ohio under a new identity recently reconnected with his mother in Alabama, the father's attorney said Tuesday after his client pleaded not...
A Canadian college student has pleaded guilty to smuggling or attempting to smuggle thousands of turtles from southeastern Michigan, more than a year after he was caught at a border crossing with 51 snappers taped to his...
U.S. construction spending jumped in October, fueled by solid gains in home building and the largest increase in federal construction in nine years.
The makers of a breakthrough drug for hepatitis C put profits before patients in pricing the $1,000 pill that cures the liver-wasting disease, Senate investigators said Tuesday.
November used to be a slow month for U.S. car sales. Not anymore.
U.S. stocks moved solidly higher Tuesday, helped by improving economic data from Japan and Europe as well as hopes that the European Central Bank will expand its stimulus program. However, trading remained quiet ahead of...
Puerto Rico has narrowly avoided a multimillion-dollar default by announcing a last-minute bond payment.
A proposed law meant to encourage companies to share information about cyberthreats with the U.S. government includes measures that could significantly limit what details, if any, the public can review about the program...
U.S. factory activity plummeted last month to the lowest level in more than six years, with a stronger dollar and low oil prices cutting new orders and hurting production.
The NFL's owners could take a significant step toward the league's return to Los Angeles this week.
Tiger Woods is painting a bleak picture on his return to golf by saying he has no idea when his back will heal.
Investigators would need a search warrant to get people's old emails under a bill considered Tuesday by a House panel looking to update a nearly 30-year-old federal law to reflect today's communications.
The newly elected mayor of Alaska's capital city was found dead at his Juneau home, and police are investigating a range of possible causes.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city's police superintendent Tuesday, a week after the release of a dash-cam video that showed a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.
A second city on Tuesday withdrew its invitation for Rhode Island's "Dancing Cop" to direct holiday traffic because of his activism against the Black Lives Matter movement. The retired officer responded by blasting the...
A San Diego-area woman is working to honor the memory of a stranger who died hours after he paid for her groceries and asked her to "pay it forward."
A condemned killer's troubled childhood, which included learning the drug trade from his mother, outweigh the brutal nature of his crime, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in overturning the man's death...
