This holiday season a Houston-based company is rewarding its workers with a major bonus. Hilcorp has 1,381 employees total, and all of them were given a one-hundred thousand dollar bonus to top off an excellent year. Amanda Thompson has been

A section of Art Basel Miami Beach was transformed into a crime scene after a fight escalated to a stabbing at the show’s main event inside the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday night, police said.   A woman pulled

The U.S. economy generated another month of solid hiring in November, making it highly likely that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates from record lows this month. The Labor Department said Friday that employers added 211,000 jobs, led by

The release of squad-car video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times set off a dramatic chain of events, from days of demonstrations to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s firing of the city’s police superintendent. But it’s

Donald Trump says he thinks a group of black pastors meeting with him Monday had planned to endorse him for president but were pressured out of it because he “believes all lives matter.” “Probably some of the Black Lives Matter

Rapper Killer Mike delivered an impassioned speech in Atlanta Monday night endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president. “In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country,” the hip hop

The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city’s small but concentrated minority community to the fore, with a police precinct besieged by a makeshift encampment and hundreds of

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified as one of those killed in Wednesday’s raid in the suburb of Saint Denis, the Paris prosecutor says. His body was found riddled with bullets and shrapnel in

Facebook is working on teleportation. No, not the “beam me up, Scotty,” type that could have you in New York for lunch and home in Palo Alto by dinnertime. But still, it sounds pretty cool. The social media platform will

The mayor of Lexington, Ky., says he’s not a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Anonymous postings saying otherwise are “false, insulting and ridiculous,” Jim Gray said in a statement on Monday. Gray, the city’s Democratic mayor, was responding to the release