A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners, but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it.
President Barack Obama will call for up to a one-third cut in nuclear warheads by the United States and Russia during a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, a senior administration official said.
Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was accidental.
A high-pressure system over the Northwest United States is giving new meaning to the term Baked Alaska. But meteorologists say Alaska's cooling trend will continue on Wednesday after record highs earlier in the week.
Like a magician in a blue shirt and white socks, James Riddle Hoffa stood outside the Machus Red Fox in Michigan on July 30, 1975, made a phone call and vanished.
Federal agents watched in horror as an unknown man in an internet photo appealed for stomach-churning advice -- how to rape the child beside him. And as the clock ticked, their only clue to track the pair down is a blurred road sign.
Mark Quarterman says the slaughter of elephants for their tusks is at its worst in decades. As demand for ivory soars in Asia, Africa's vicious militant groups are killing elephants to pay for their arms and ammunition.
A second day of digging in a Detroit field yielded no sign of the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Undeterred, authorities will resume their hunt Wednesday morning.
Journalist Michael Hastings, known for his 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to the officer's abrupt retirement, died in a car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
A mentally disabled woman and child were "locked in rooms, forced to work all the time, threatened, beaten and injured, exploited, used as pawns to get drugs," a prosecutor says.
George Gascon, a former police chief, says immigrants are less likely to report if they are victims of crimes if they fear police. It's in law enforcement's interest to bring them out of shadows
The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.