The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian...

that the federal government needs to intervene.

Police in California say officers feared for their safety when they gunned down a man who turned out to be wielding only a metal spatula when he was shot.

The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas companies Thursday to voluntarily disclose the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. ...