The Powerball lottery was at a record high of $800 million on Friday, and the jackpot could get far richer.

Before the next drawing on Saturday night, experts say the Powerball could top $1 billion.

"We could be on the verge of creating the first lottery billionaire," Gordon Medenica, director ...

Nearly six months after his most recent escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico, drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán has been caught, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced via Twitter.

"Mission accomplished: we got him," Nieto wrote Friday afternoon, informing the public that El Chapo had been ...

When the Seattle Seahawks play the Minnesota Vikings for a National Football Conference wild card playoff spot on Sunday, the temperature in Minneapolis is expected to be around zero degrees.

There's been speculation that the frigid weather could give an edge to the home team because the Seahawks are accustomed ...

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced Thursday that the state is suing the U.S. government over the settlement of Syrian refugees. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, accuses the Obama administration of violating the Refugee Act of 1980 by not consulting states on the placement of refugees.

It is the second ...

Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland during a contentious traffic stop, has been indicted on charges of perjury, accused of lying about how he removed Bland from her car. Soon after a grand jury returned the indictment, the state said Encinia would be fired.

On July ...

TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, is suing the U.S. government because President Obama struck down the next step in the pipeline plan in November. The company says Obama's rejection exceeded his authority under the Constitution, NPR's Jeff Brady reports.

President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline ...

Enrique Marquez, the 24-year-old man accused of providing two guns used in the San Bernardino attack, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

When he appeared Wednesday at his arraignment in federal court in Riverside, Calif., Marquez spoke only to briefly answer Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym's questions, the Los ...

The masked militant who acted as the spokesman for ISIS in a new propaganda video is believed to be Siddhartha Dhar, also known as Abu Rumaysah, according to U.S. law enforcement sources who were briefed by U.K. officials.

Authorities suspect that he is a British Muslim convert from London who ...

One American special operations soldier was killed Tuesday and two others were wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook insists that U.S. soldiers are there to work alongside Afghan forces in a "train, advise and assist" capacity.

NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman reports that the American and ...

The former police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist last April in North Charleston, S.C., has been released on $500,000 bail.

Circuit Judge Clifton Newman denied bail for Michael Slager in September, saying his release would "constitute an unreasonable danger to ...

Enrique Marquez, a friend of one of the San Bernardino shooters, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to support a terrorist attack.

He was indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiring with the gunman, Syed Rizwan Farook, to provide material support — such as weapons and explosives ...

Sports network giant ESPN has invited the candidates for president of FIFA, soccer's world governing body, to debate on live TV.

A spokesman for the network confirmed the invitation to Reuters yesterday: "ESPN has invited all five candidates vying for the FIFA presidency to participate in a debate."

According ...

As activists continue to call for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation after yet another fatal shooting over the weekend involving police officers, the mayor announced a new round of police department changes that include more Tasers and better training.

At a news conference Wednesday, Emanuel said the police department ...

Ethan Couch — the "affluenza teen" who killed four people while driving drunk two years ago and recently fled to Mexico with his mother — has been granted a temporary stay against his extradition to the U.S. His mother was deported to Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.

Couch and his ...

The flooding in the Mississippi River Valley that has already killed at least 18 people in Missouri and Illinois could get worse before it gets better.

Willis Arnold of St. Louis Public Radio reports from Arnold, Mo., (about 25 miles south of St. Louis) that "the water level is ...

Narrowly beating a statute of limitations deadline to file charges, prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced felony sexual assault charges against comedian Bill Cosby on Wednesday. A former Temple University employee says Cosby drugged and assaulted her in January 2004.

Montgomery County, Pa., prosecutors have charged Cosby with three counts of aggravated ...

Continuing calls for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation after another fatal shooting involving police this past weekend, a group of about two dozen people brought the protest to the mayor's front yard Tuesday evening.

As The Two-Way reported, Chicago police fatally shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier and his 55-year-old neighbor, ...

On Christmas Eve in France, thieves who had robbed a warehouse two days earlier returned some of their loot: They left six boxes of police armbands outside a police station, a French prosecutor said.

As was first reported by the Dauphine Libere newspaper, five masked thieves committed the theft ...

The rare winter floodwaters that have already claimed the lives of 18 people in Missouri are continuing to swell, prompting the evacuation of several towns along the Mississippi River. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has activated the National Guard to help fight the floods.

Joseph Leahy of St. Louis Public ...

A U.S. official said coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria have killed 10 ISIS leaders over the past month, including two militants with links to the terrorists behind the November attacks in Paris.

U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the the coalition fighting ISIS, said an airstrike in ...