Deadly rip currents are to blame for a dozen apparent drownings over the past two weeks on Florida's Panhandle, where there aren't enough lifeguards to keep beachgoers from venturing out into the water — despite red flag warnings, experts said Wednesday.

The Supreme Court handed Ohio State University a defeat by refusing to reconsider a lower court ruling that said former students should be allowed to sue the university for failing to protect them from a sexual predator decades ago.

The Titan was touted as a groundbreaking submersible that could give tourists the extraordinary chance to visit the deep-sea grave of the Titanic — but past passengers have shared chilling accounts of safety issues, communication failures and design concerns.

Racing the clock in one of Earth’s most extreme environments, the missing Titanic submersible search-and-rescue operation faces extreme depths, darkness, and intense water pressure.

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the U.S. government's lies about the Vietnam War by leaking the Pentagon Papers to some of the nation's top newspapers, has died, his family said in a statement on Friday.

The tornado that destroyed a small city in the Texas Panhandle and killed three people claimed the life of a woman whose daughter-in-law said she was "an angel on earth."

The Southern Baptist Convention announced Wednesday it has voted overwhelmingly to finalize the expulsion of two churches from the nation's largest Protestant denomination for having female pastors.

Largely peaceful protests as Donald Trump was arraigned in Miami Tuesday devolved into a brief flurry of chaos when a protester ran after his motorcade.

A man who was found dead on Monday in the wreckage of the tanker truck fire beneath an Interstate 95 overpass in Philadelphia has been identified by his family.

Two lawyers who used to represent “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson have been hit with fines after a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled they leaked confidential information about Masterson’s rape victims to the Church of Scientology’s lawyer.

Here’s what we know about the possible cause of the plane crash in Virginia that killed four. Investigators are looking into whether hypoxia played a role in the crash.