In a historic, unanimous ruling Friday, South Korea’s Constitutional Court formally removed impeached President Park Geun-hye from office over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into political turmoil and worsened an already-serious national divide.
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A Kingman, Arizona, man was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for using a hatchet to kill a man he was trying to evict from his property.
French authorities say they have issued arrest warrants for two more suspects in the November 2015 gun and suicide bomb attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Utah could soon have the strictest DUI threshold in the nation after state lawmakers voted to lower the limit for a driver’s blood-alcohol content to 0.05 percent, down from 0.08 percent.
Fire crews are expecting slower winds as they work to extinguish blazes that have scorched hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed six people.
A 42-year-old Australian law lecturer at the Queensland University in Brisbane has been charged with using Facebook and Skype to impersonate the star and using a carriage service to procure and groom children for sex and to access child pornography.
The organizers of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade have scheduled an emergency meeting to reconsider their vote to bar a gay veterans group from participating.
Hosting your own St. Patrick’s Day party is a fun way to celebrate this Irish-themed holiday without leaving home — or spending a fortune.
A fragment from a Mozart manuscript for the third movement of his Serenade in D Major has failed to sell at a Boston auction.
On Wednesday, someone set fire to mattresses in the girls’ section of the state-run shelter and the blaze quickly spread through two dorms, killing at least 22 girls and injuring dozens more, most with second- and third-degree burns.