A Delta Air Lines flight en route from Southern California to Seattle was forced to make an emergency landing in Nevada Wednesday amid “severe turbulence” that caused a chaotic scene on board the flight and sent three people to the hospital.
It took a little time, but the IRS eventually realized it had a problem after it issued a refund check for $980,000 to a Florida man who’d claimed only about $18,000 in income for the 2016 tax year.
CNN’s Don Lemon on Wednesday bashed Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin for stripping Colin Kaepernick’s name from a Black History Month resolution, calling the decision “B.S.”
Michael Avenatti agreed Wednesday to give up financial control of his law firm to settle a dispute with a former partner who alleged the celebrity lawyer hid millions in order to fund his lavish lifestyle and avoid having to pay a $10 million judgement.
A white man who fired a shotgun at three black men in a race-based attack amid the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was set for sentencing Thursday in a federal courtroom in New Orleans.
A Canadian man whose real last name: “Assman,” was deemed an “unacceptable slogan” for a personalized license plate has emblazoned the back of his truck with a giant decal of the name he was denied.
A dog named Donald Trump fatally shot in Minnesota earlier this week wasn’t killed over a political rivalry, despite social media users’ false claims, a sheriff said Wednesday.
Theresa May is hardly in a parliamentary sweet spot - but now she's found herself in a new jam.
Congressional bargainers late Wednesday completed a 1,159-page border security compromise that gives President Trump less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion he wanted to build a wall with Mexico.
A House Democrat's "blah blah blah" mockery of key Trump administration accomplishments drew a quick response on Twitter on Wednesday from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
An Arkansas woman was hit in the face with a crossbow arrow Monday by a man whom she claimed was stealing her property, police said.
While the public discourse has been consumed over the realization that abortion physicians actually let viable babies who survive late-term abortions die -- as well as whether President Donald Trump or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will blink first over the issue of congressional authorization for building a wall at the country's southern border, to say nothing of the race-and-sex-infused mess at the top of the government in Virginia -- a profound free speech issue has been bubbling below the radar.
A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature that would remove licensing and training requirements for handgun owners cleared the state's House of Representatives on Wednesday with mostly Republican support.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., had a fiery exchange with a reporter on Capitol Hill when asked to comment on the Green New Deal.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blasted President Trump’s special envoy to Venezuela on Wednesday over his history of supporting right-wing governments in Latin America and his guilty plea in 1991 to two misdemeanor counts of lying to Congress but started by called him the wrong name.
Denver teachers have gone on strike to improve their pay, but the fight isn't that simple.
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow sat down with Fox News' Sean Hannity Wednesday night to discuss his new faith-based film and the powerful impact Christianity has made on his life.
President Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom got into a Twitter battle Wednesday night over the curtailment of the state’s massive high-speed rail project from Los Angeles to San Francisco that was more than a decade behind schedule and billions in the red.
The owner of a sporting goods store in Colorado says his shop is going out of business after he stopped selling Nike products over the company's controversial campaign with Colin Kaepernick.
Officials in Texas on Wednesday reportedly voted in favor of removing a Confederate monument that stands in a cemetery.
Over the objection of the city's police chief, Portland's city council on Wednesday voted to stop cooperating with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, citing alleged civil-rights violations and arguing that the partnership between local officials and federal authorities was ultimately ineffective.
Indiana authorities are repeating their call for the public to keep passing on tips in the slayings of two teenage girls killed during a hiking trip , saying the next tip could help solve the crime.
A Minnesota man admitted Wednesday to physically and sexually abusing his developmentally disabled twin daughters over the course of several years in a case the local media dubbed a "house of horrors" affair.
50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather are back at it again.