Ken Stanford

Dozens of tornadoes and intense thunderstorms swept across the Midwest on Sunday, causing extensive damage in several central Illinois communities and killing at least three people.

National Weather Service forecasters are warning of potentially severe thunderstorms in north and central Georgia.

A number of Midwestern states are awakening to the threat of a high risk of severe thunderstorms.

License plate scanners will soon track cars coming and going from Tybee Island.

As the technology to print 3-D firearms advances, a federal law that banned the undetectable guns is about to expire but one member of Congress is seeking an extension of the law.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has secured public support from nearly half the Senate, but not enough votes, for her proposal to give victims of rape and sexual assault in the military an independent route outside the chain of command for prosecuting attackers.

The Israeli government prohibited a former security official from testifying in a landmark anti-terrorism case in the United States, court documents showed Saturday, drawing accusations from victims of Palestinian violence that the country was caving in to political pressure from China.

Federal health officials say that defects in some Medtronic devices used in heart procedures are severe enough that they could cause serious injury or death.

The Pentagon spent $10.2 billion over three decades burning tons of deadly nerve gas and other chemical weapons stored in four states - some of the agents so deadly even a few drops can kill.

The Obama administration will allow some relatives of U.S. service members living in the country illegally to stay, according to a policy directive issued Friday.