It might be a surprise to some that Washington D.C. is one of the four states going to the vote Tuesday to legalize marijuana.Even if the other three states, Alaska, Florida and Oregon, have the dollar sign in view ...<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Here ...

Renowned author and activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West" target="_blank">Cornel West</a> is among more than 50 people arrested today in a “Moral Monday” march in Ferguson, Missouri.According to <a ...

While Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned amid a crisis in the agency’s health care system, the director of Utah’s main VA hospital is down south, trying to clean up the mess.Shinseki resigned Friday after publicly apologizing for recently uncovered problems plaguing the ...

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Thomas “Lem” Johns, a Secret Service agent at the side of President Lyndon Johnson in the chaotic aftermath of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has died. He was 88.Grandson Mike Johns said the former agent died Saturday at his home in Hoover, Alabama, of natural ...

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Air Force rescuers hoisted two badly burned Chinese fishermen from a Venezuelan boat hundreds of miles off Mexico’s Pacific coast to take them to a San Diego hospital.The two were among 17 Chinese crew members believed aboard a fishing vessel that caught fire and sank in ...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — In the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest, the Florida Panhandle and Alabama Gulf Coast were hit with widespread flooding early Wednesday, with people stranded in cars and homes waiting for rescuers to find a way around ...