On Tuesday at the White House, President Obama announced new executive actions on gun control, including changes to the nation's system of background checks.
President Obama's new measures on gun sales would create a more level playing field for licensed dealers, but those dealers are loath to endorse anything that smacks of gun control.
The FBI says they've accounted for 3 hours and 42 minutes in the timeline after more than 550 interviews. Now they're asking if someone else can fill in the rest.
Fifty-seven people received payments totaling $5.5 million. "Reparations is not a necessity. But it is a moral compunction and a moral reckoning to right a wrong," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Supporters of "smart" gun technology hope that President Obama's initiative will prompt federal agencies to put in big purchase orders, unleashing the new market. Will it make us safer?
People who have Medicaid insurance are much more likely to be smokers, and the program pays for medication to help them quit. But just 10 percent of Medicaid recipients get that help, a study finds.
Cellphone video showed Michael Slager shooting an unarmed black man in the back last year in North Charleston, S.C. He was charged with murder and initially denied bail. Now he's out on $500,000 bond.
The Nevada rancher has racked up more than $1 million in fines and fees. But decades have passed and the federal government still has not collected any money or removed his cattle from federal land.
On Monday, the Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit against Volkswagen. The DOJ alleges that nearly 600,000 diesel engine vehicles had illegal defeat devices installed that impaired emission control systems and caused emissions to exceed EPA's standards, resulting in harmful air pollution.