Category: National

A final report released Friday on the investigation of the mass shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School offered snippets of information into the life of the reclusive and tormented young man who carried out the second deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

“Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas” at $8.4 million, was one of the 10 most popular movies in the U.S. and Canada this weekend. The film opened Dec. 14.

That was the tweet that NBA star Dwayne Wade used Saturday to announce his engagement to actress Gabrielle Union.

Michelle Janine Howard has been nominated by President Barack Obama for an appointment to the rank of admiral and assignment as vice chief of naval operations. This appointment will make Howard the first female four-star admiral.

(CNN) — Word of Nelson Mandela’s death spread quickly across the United States, bringing with it a mix of reverence and grief for a man who was born in South Africa but in the end belonged to the world.

You’ve probably heard someone say, “I’m fat but fit.” Several recent studies have suggested this statement could be true. But a new  meta-analysis, a review of eight existing studies, published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine may put a stop to the rumor.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.,- Some fast-food workers in the Los Angeles area are expected to walk off the job Thursday as part of their continuing effort to increase their wages to $15 an hour and to form a union.

Salmonella causes an estimated 1.3 million illnesses each year in the United States. The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) hopes to tackle that toll with the help of a new “Salmonella Action Plan.”