Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, caught up in a scandal over a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine, fired his chief of staff on Thursday.
The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.
A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.
Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, President Barack Obama on Thursday revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret.
Using scientific studies that measure how quickly people associate words like "black" with "criminal" or "Asian-American" with "foreign," these researchers conclude that many people — of all backgrounds, not just white people — are unaware of their own racial biases.
The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday evening, injuring an unknown number of people.
The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.
A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new homes and tidy lawns, police said.
A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said.
Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been part of previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot.
The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE be designated a core subject.
A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.
A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing.
A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers
Toronto mayor fires chief of staff amid crack smoking scandal
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys (Video)
Kids, teachers from devastated Okla. school reunite
Obama: America at a 'crossroads' in fight against terrorism
'I'm not racist': Common claim after racial slurs
Cars, people sent tumbling into Skagit River as I-5 bridge collapses (Photo Gallery) (Video)
Nearly all U.S. states see hefty drop in teen births
Utah teen arrested in death of his 2 younger brothers (Photo Gallery)
Man shot by FBI had ties to Boston bombing suspect (Photo Gallery)
UK attack suspects part of previous investigations (Photo Gallery)
Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup
1 child dead, 1 missing in Minnesota park landslide