The number of juveniles committed to prison or other facilities dropped by 53 percent between 2001 and 2013, a new study found.
'Disturbing' body camera footage shows the incident 'was not a threatening situation' for the officers, attorney says.
The city of Hamtramck, Mich., is the first city in America to elect a Muslim-majority city council. The vote reflects the shifting demographic trends in America.
The arrests in Michigan follow similar foiled high school shootings around the country, illustrating the benefits school resource officers can have.
Global temperatures are expected to rise 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels this year, with international climate negotiations later this month unlikely to prevent a 2 C. increase.
The president of the University of Missouri resigned Monday after faculty joined the football team and students in the walkout over racism on campus.
After years of little progress, Walmart is now among the major corporations fueling the growth of the US renewable energy sector with big, long-term investments
Black Millennials are confident in their ability to create political change, just not in the politicians charged with following through, a study finds.
With the future looking grim for the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has requested a delay that could keep the project alive until economic and political conditions improve.
Ahead of Tuesday's election, gun control advocates have spent big in two Virginia state Senate races, putting the NRA on the defensive. It's a growing trend.
Three years ago this week, superstorm Sandy battered New York and New Jersey.
Prosecutions of police officers for fatal shootings are at their highest level in at least 10 years, but it's hard to know yet if that is a trend, researcher says.
The number of police officers in schools has grown in recent years, but footage of a controversial arrest in South Carolina has sparked fresh debate.
With bipartisan support growing to reduce America's prison population, there's a need for more prisoner reentry programs such as Sweet Beginnings.
FBI director James Comey says that a fear of being the focus of a policing scandal has caused officers to be more timid on the street, which has in turn led to violent crime spikes in some cities.
An international group of Catholic leaders has appealed to the United Nations to forge a strong climate agreement that is fair to poorer nations.
In recent months, the state of Mississippi has received pressure to drop the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. The school's flagship university isn't waiting for a formal change.
New research of the comet Lovejoy adds further evidence to the hypothesis that the building blocks of life were delivered to Earth by comets billions of years ago.
Drone technology has helped scientists track the recent recovery of orca whales in the Pacific Northwest, but a weak salmon run next year could threaten the population again.
Authorities confiscated enough weapons over the weekend to fill four tractor trailers. Police suspect that nearly all of the guns were stolen.
