A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said Friday in urging a judge to keep the defendants locked up.
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A wide area including a freeway around an F-16 fighter jet crash site in Southern California remained off-limits Friday as authorities investigated.
Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday approved a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, joining Alabama and other states that have moved to severely restrict the procedure.
Herman Wouk, the versatile, Pulitzer Prize winning author of such million-selling novels as “The Caine Mutiny” and “The Winds of War” died on Friday.
Iran’s foreign minister traveled Friday to China on a tour aimed at keeping world markets open to Tehran amid an intense sanctions campaign from the U.S.
President Donald Trump is moving fast to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the Mexican border with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but he first must get past the courts.
A western Pennsylvania woman allegedly attacked her boyfriend with a box cutter because no one got her a card, cake or gift on her 55th birthday.
Investigators say at least 177 male students were sexually abused by an Ohio State team doctor who died in 2005. The university released findings Friday about Richard Strauss.
Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn told the special counsel’s office that people connected to the Trump administration and Congress sought to influence his cooperation with the Russia investigation.
President Donald Trump took steps Friday to ease tensions with America’s allies — lifting import taxes on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum and delaying auto tariffs that would have hurt Japan and Europe.
Talks between Britain’s Conservative government and opposition Labour Party seeking a compromise over Brexit broke down without agreement Friday.
President Donald Trump says he hopes the U.S. is not on a path to war with Iran amid fears that his two most hawkish advisers could be angling for such a conflict.
Boeing says it has finished updates to the flight-control software implicated in two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max, moving a step closer to getting the plane back in the sky.
Her owners say Grumpy Cat, whose sourpuss demeanor became an internet sensation, has died at age 7.
A Houston-area police officer knew his neighbor suffered from mental illness and should have offered assistance but instead he fatally shot the 44-year-old woman, a lawyer for the victim’s family said Thursday.
