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.
The musician’s parents are deceased, he wasn’t married and he had no children.
Melania Trump normally comes across as quiet and reserved, but on Thursday morning she opened up a bit about several topics.
The student, who was not named, was giving a presentation on the 1920s and tried to use the costume as a prop.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced Wednesday Harriet Tubman will appear on the $20 bill, displacing Andrew Jackson.
Students at Brigham Young University are demanding that the administration change its honor code policy to give immunity to victims of sexual assault.
A proposed uranium mining ban would grant federal protection to 1.7 million acres of land in the Grand Canyon.
A review of data conducted by Reuters found that 56 percent of bombs dropped in Afghanistan were from drones in 2015.
In an effort to combat climate change, San Francisco is set to mandate solar panels for buildings with 10 stories or fewer.
By a 2-to-1 ratio, a poll showed, Americans age 18-29 favor letting transgender people use the restroom of their identity.
Ancient monkey fossils indicate the primate at one point made a 100-mile ocean crossing between North America and South America into modern-day Panama.
The German automaker will also spend about $1 billion to compensate owners as part of the agreement reached ahead of the April 21 deadline, reports said.
The sports network fired the former big leaguer Wednesday after he veered into the controversy over North Carolina's transgender bathroom law.
A Baltimore judge's ruling came Wednesday in a case that has drawn national attention to police treatment of minorities.
In March, houses typically stayed on the market for 47 days, the fewest number since August, and down from 59 days in February.
Four former New Orleans police officers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven to 12 years, while a fifth was sentenced to three years.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Wednesday that his office received more than 1,000 complaints about Tuesday’s presidential primaries.
Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson will appear on the back of a redesigned bill, with Abraham Lincoln remaining on the front.