Relentless wildfires burned into the early morning Tuesday across Florida’s Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses.

The contrast between the adoring crowds Barack Obama draws at public events and the racism his foot soldiers encounter out of the spotlight is stark.

Colombia on Tuesday extradited more than a dozen ex-paramilitary leaders to face U.S. justice in the toughest measure against the warlords who are accused of drug trafficking and massacres.

A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter studied has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is determined to rack up two big primary victories in the next eight days — in West Virginia and Kentucky — as she seeks to prove her continued political viability and claim bargaining chips that might help her exit the race on her terms, her advisers say.

Nearly half of the 21 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, troubling experts.

The Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their condition, the corps' chief levee expert told The Associated Press.

A Texas teenager who refused to let police extract a bullet lodged in his forehead has struck a plea deal that caps his punishment at 10 years in prison.

Crews and search dogs hunted for survivors or bodies in piles of debris Monday after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region over the weekend and killed at least 23 people in three states.

Heavy rain drenched the mid-Atlantic region Monday, knocking out power to up to 70,000 customers, flooding roads and chasing people out of their homes.

Federal prosecutors on Monday accused a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts.

The Marine Corps far surpassed its recruiting goal last month and could eventually be more than a year ahead of schedule in its plan to grow the force to 202,000 members.