Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr today asked a federal judge to place Detroit in chapter 9 bankruptcy, a move that, if allowed, would make the city the largest municipality in the history of the United States to file for bankruptcy.

Is Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor? Officials from the National Security Agency, the Pentagon and the American Civil Liberties Union debated the issue in public Thursday

A couple who survived the Colorado theater shooting are taking back THAT day, by choosing to marry on Saturday -- a year to the day of the shooting rampage .

(CNN) -- CNN has learned that the Navy and Marine Corps will begin publishing their own version of a sex offenders list as part of new effort to crack down on sexual assault in the military.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In this corner, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee who alleges without proof that the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal has links to the White House.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Gas prices are significantly higher and likely to go higher still, which could make this the most expensive summer at the pump in five years.

One million people have so far signed online petitions by the NAACP and MoveOn.org calling for federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

Hillary Clinton Speaks to Delta women saying the sorority is force for justice and understanding. Addressing the Zimmerman verdict she said no parent should have to fear for their childrens safety

Across the East Coast high temperature and humidity are driving up the heat index into the 100 degree range. That's a measure of how hot it feels to your body -- and in Philadelphia, it could feel like a broiling 110 degrees.

(CNN) -- One of the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman said she had "no doubt" he feared for his life in the final moments of his struggle with Trayvon Martin, and that was the definitive factor in the verdict.