US & World

A Boston mother and her daughter were speaking Spanish on their way home when authorities say two white women assaulted them because they thought…

A mother in Louisiana wrote a painfully honest obituary for her only child after he was shot and killed, writing that she hoped her words would show…

France’s equivalent of the Oscars — the Cesars — was thrown into turmoil Friday after director Roman Polanski won top awards,…

Imagine if you knew what your schedule would look like for the rest of your life, every day for forever. If every year began on a Monday, and all but…

A St. Louis police officer pleaded guilty to accidentally killing a female colleague at his home last year while they played a form of Russian…

For more than four decades, one California police department employed every method available in its search for the killer of a 57-year-old apartment…

Federal prosecutors charged a Pennsylvania resident with kidnapping after he allegedly lured a woman he led to believe was his girlfriend to the…

Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is here, which means the country’s youngest entrepreneurs will come out in droves to peddle their cookies, and…

The crowd lost their breath to Nia Dennis’ gymnastics routine last weekend. The University of California, Los Angeles, junior’s amazing…

Buckle up and let me tell you about a recent moment of completely unexpected, unwarranted kindness: Last weekend, I ran a few races at Walt Disney…

For 18-year-old Huang Yiyang, school starts when she opens up her laptop. Over the past two weeks, there have been no school bells, bustling…

At least three people were missing and 13 others sent to hospitals Friday after apparently being dumped from a boat off the coast of San Diego,…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday it was “deeply disturbed” over a report that deputies shared photographs…

The family of the employee who killed five co-workers at the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee before taking his own life on Friday expressed…

Hundreds of schools and businesses in Houston remained closed Friday as crews attempt to repair a water main that provides up to half of the…

Residents of the Swiss village of Mitholz are going to have to find new homes, so authorities can clean up a crumbling ammunition depot filled with…

A policeman has been charged with distributing about a pound of marijuana he confiscated while on duty in December, the Colorado Bureau of…

Fatigue with Syria’s endless conflict can’t hide the enormity of this moment. It is highly unlikely that the Syrian regime had the will…