Slideshow: Tornadoes ravage Plains. Ed Zurga / EPA. A monster tornado hit Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon, leaving at least 24 dead as the threat of further storms continues.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career in public life came to an abrupt end when he sent lewd pictures to a college student on Twitter, jumped back into politics on Wednesday by announcing a bid for mayor of New York City.

PHOENIX - As a jury deliberates whether Jodi Arias will spend her entire life behind bars or die for killing her one-time boyfriend, the convicted murderer says asking for the death penalty is like "asking for assisted suicide.

Democratic candidate for Mayor of Pittsburgh, former Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner, left, greets supporters at a city voting poll in the Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Pittsburgh.

LOS ANGELES - City Councilman Eric Garcetti took a strong lead in early returns in his bid to become the mayor of Los Angeles on Wednesday, hoping to bring to a close a nearly two-year race that pitted him against another moderate Democrat with years ...

It's hard to feel comfortable with the Barack Obama administration's aggressive pursuit of national security leaks. Last week, the Justice Department acknowledged seizing phone records from Associated Press reporters in connection with a leak concerning a ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.

(Source: FEMA) - If you're waiting for a Disaster Recovery Center to open in your county, be patient and know that you can register for assistance by phone or online at any time.

WASHINGTON - A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency's improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.

Photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse and burial at sea were properly classified by U.S. officials and can be withheld from the public, a federal appeals court ruled.

U.S. military sources serving in North Africa are challenging the latest White House claim that the administration is applying "all the resources" at its disposal to bring the Benghazi attackers to justice, charging instead that the Obama administration knows who ...

A commander at Fort Jackson has been suspended due to allegations of misconduct. According to the spokesman for U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Brig.

WASHINGTON - The Chemical Safety Board's investigation of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion has been consistently impeded by other agencies, the board's chair complained in a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

It seems the Senate could have a really hot summer. Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has reportedly threatened to “go nuclear” this July—meaning that Senate Democrats would move by majority vote to ban filibusters of executive and judicial branch ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Carrying American flags and signs supporting the Second Amendment, more than 200 people gathered at New York's state capitol building in Albany on Tuesday to press for repeal of the state's tough new gun law.

The state Highway Patrol says up to 30 people have been injured in a crash between a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest Ohio.