The payout is the latest seven-figure settlement paid to the families of African-Americans who were killed by police officers.
John Oliver brought out Lin-Manuel Miranda to rap a song urging U.S. lawmakers to help relieve Puerto Rico's debt on "Last Week Tonight."
The DOJ is introducing an initiative aimed at reducing recidivism rates and helping former prisoners re-enter society.
The United States saw a significant increase in people caught trying to cross the southern border in March.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are eyeing big victories in Pennsylvania and other states Tuesday to pick up more delegates.
Georgia removed Confederate Memorial Day from its state calendar last year and replaced it with the generic name "state holiday."
The two GOP candidates said they would cede certain states to each other to prevent Trump from getting enough delegates to win.
Officials said the victims, ranging in age from 16 to 44, were singled out for attack, rather than killed at random or in a crime of passion.
The withheld section of the report on the 9/11 attacks is central to a dispute over whether Americans should be able to sue the Saudi Arabian government for damages.
Both candidates recently clinched primary victories in New York.
The U.S. president is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel Sunday to discuss global economy, terrorism, transatlantic security and a free trade pact.
The Democrat could be preferable for the White House than the current crop of Republican candidates, the billionaire conservative said.
The Clinton camp chose not to respond to Trump's charge that the former secretary of state is "a crooked person."
Investigators have yet to disclose a suspected motive in the massacre of eight members of the Rhoden family in Pike County.
The demonstrators repeatedly clashed with police in a county park in Stone Mountain, Georgia, attempting to confront white supremacist groups.
The suspected gunman behind the two deadly shootings in the U.S. state of Georgia was found dead Saturday in an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Authorities are combing at least four U.S. states as they seek a pilfered cache of commercial-grade fireworks.
Voting rights advocates say the move is a way of promoting justice for African-Americans, who are convicted and imprisoned at high rates.
Authorities say they have interviewed more than 30 people in connection with the Friday deaths of eight family members in Pike County.
Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, has not yet indicated whether she will sign the legislation that passed Thursday.
No one was hurt in the accident, but it likely cost the military more than $600,000.
The entertainer, who died Thursday, is rumored to have overdosed from a powerful prescription drug called Percocet.
Groups are lobbying Hillary Clinton to choose a Hispanic running mate, but the one cited most often is opposed by liberals who say he favors Wall Street.
Self-inflicted deaths of girls 10-14 spiked 200 percent from 1999-2014, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found.
“Should a grown man pretending to be a woman be allowed to use the women’s restroom?” a Cruz video reads. “The same restroom used by your daughter? Your wife?”
A new computer algorithm has some interesting predictions.
The U.S. Department of Energy will purchase 32 tons of heavy water from Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in a deal valued at $8.6 million, American officials said Friday.
Did you know Earth Day started in 1970 because of a United States senator?
Names of more than 100,000 registered Democrats were removed from the rolls in Brooklyn prior to Tuesday's New York presidential primary, officials said.
In honor of Earth Day, here are some fun and educational ways you can spend the day honoring Mother Nature.