Cain Burdeau

Appellate judges on Friday were to consider whether to lift a temporary hold imposed by a federal judge in Texas on President Barack Obama's executive action seeking to shield millions of immigrants from deportation.

A man sprayed a TSA agent in the face with wasp killer, then slashed a second guard with a machete before a third agent shot him three times at a security checkpoint in the New Orleans international airport Friday.

Divers found the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed amid dense fog during a Florida training mission, killing 11 Marines and soldiers, but more bad weather prevented the recovery of bodies and the flight recorder from wreckage 25 feet deep.

Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. today after flooding stretches of Louisiana and knocking out power, leaving entire water-logged neighborhoods without lights, air conditioning or clean water.

The rig owner involved in drilling the Gulf of Mexico well that spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil will not have to pay many of the pollution claims because it was shielded in a contract with BP, a federal judge ruled today.

In a high-stakes court filing today, BP accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the Gulf of Mexico oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore spill.