WNBA player A'ja Wilson turns 30 and figure skater Alysa Liu turns 21, among the famous birthdays for August 8.

On Aug. 8, 1974, facing expected impeachment over the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to ...

U.S. officials revoked Frank Kendall's access to classified information, accusing the former secretary of the Air Force of ...

An Argentinian soccer player has been detained by U.S. immigration officials while traveling with his American pro club in ...

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the random slaying of a man waiting for a bus in East St, Louis, Ill., while dressed ...

Justice Samuel Alito said Friday he is committed to returning for another term at the Supreme Court. His retirement had been ...

President Donald Trump urged U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to reinstall charges against several people accused of vandalizing ...

The far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia Friday amid tight security at a ceremony ...

A firefighting helicopter carrying two people crashed on Friday while responding to a wildfire raging in central Utah, ...

President Donald Trump is once again trying to remove Governor Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board, after he was blocked ...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from another attempt to shift how it funds programs to aid people ...

The U.S. Senate passed a bill proposed by late Sen. Lindsey Graham that imposes new sanctions on Iran and on Russia for its ...