The 15-year-old American boy who used a semi-automatic pistol bought during Black Friday sales to shoot his classmates at point-blank range was "absolutely cold-hearted" and went to school with "the intent to kill people," the local sheriff said Wednesday....

What started out as an incorrect phone number is now a friendship that has lasted 20 years.

After a half century of abortion rights protected by the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court on Wednesday offered the clearest signs yet that the era of reproductive freedom is drawing to a grim close. The Court spent the morning hearing...

A study by Physicians for Human Rights said children and parents separated under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy suffered lingering, severe psychological trauma.

Congress is scrambling to pass government funding ahead of a Friday deadline. But GOP objections and delays in the process could trigger a short-lived shutdown over the weekend.