Firefighters battling to protect the world's biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said Friday they are optimistic it can be saved. Flames are creeping closer to the majestic General Sherman and other giant sequoias, as man-made...

Covering 20 acres beneath the Washington Monument, the somber memorial leaves space for us to grieve.

"Does the United States Constitution permit the [NYPD] to require an observant Muslim woman to remove her hijab when sitting for an arrest photo?" U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres asked in the opening lines of her 18-page ruling. "The Court holds that...

A U.S. District Court judge said that it's unconstitutional to impose race and sex-based hiring quotas on already diverse departments.

"At this time foul play has not been ruled out," Honolulu police said in a statement Thursday