A bipartisan group of senators has written two letters to CIA Acting Director Michael Morell asking for all information the agency gave the "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmakers.

In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a significant moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to all members of the Wilmington Ten.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The newspaper that published an online, interactive map of handgun permit-holders in two suburban New York counties hired armed guards to protect its office after negative backlash from the map publication, according to a local police report.

(CNN) -- After a firestorm of criticism from Northeast Republicans, the House of Representatives is expected to take up an aid package on Friday meant to address those still reeling in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

(CNN) -- For the first time since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Christine Wilford plans do something remarkable on Thursday that once was routine: drop her child off at school.

On the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a historical document that symbolizes the beginnings of freedom for individuals once deemed property, historians say myths persist about what the policy did, and did not, do.

Gunmen have kidnapped an American journalist in Syria, the journalist's family announced Wednesday. Freelancer James Foley was abducted in northwest Syria on November 22

A new marijuana club, opened in Denver, has drawn criticism from cannabis activists, who fear it will undermine the state's legalization law.

President Obama insisted the fiscal cliff deal include a pay down on the sequester and a tax increase that hit at least individuals making $400,000 a year and $450,000 for households.

A New York City man and woman have been arrested in Manhattan, accused of possession of an explosive substance and a sawed off shotgun