Russia was swept up in patriotic fervor Friday for bringing Crimea back into its territory, with tens of thousands of people thronging Red Square waving flags and chanting “Crimea is Russia!”
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The Las Vegas police officers involved in Tuesday’s non-fatal shooting on Rancho Drive have been identified.
The body of a woman whom neighbors say they last saw several years ago was found in a sport utility vehicle parked in the garage of a foreclosed home northwest of Detroit.
A Japanese American man thought to be the reclusive multi-millionaire father of Bitcoin emerged from a modest Southern California home and denied involvement with the digital currency before leading reporters on a freeway car chase to the local headquarters of the Associated Press.
It’s usually hard to predict what’s going to happen in boxing. But one thing is certain come Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden: The Alvarez brothers will leave the ring the same way they entered — without a championship belt.
Federal prosecutors charged a Denver woman on Friday with kidnapping her half-sister’s newborn boy from a Wisconsin home hours after police discovered the infant in a storage crate outside an Iowa gas station, alive and well in single-digit weather.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s private funeral was held in Manhattan on Friday, with stars Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehey, Amy Adams and Ellen Burstyn paying their respects to an actor widely considered among the best of his generation.
Heading into the 2014 Winter Games, athletics have largely been pushed out of the spotlight in Sochi. Here’s what you should know.
OK, so that’s probably not going to happen. But the new animated offering is polling as high or higher than every current best-picture nominee at Rotten Tomatoes.
Leading up to the 2014 International CES, trade show spokeswoman Tara Dunion noted that Ultra HD sets will be on everyone’s mind this week. She seems to be right.
Three players for UTEP’s men’s basketball team bet on at least one sporting event, a university official said Tuesday, and they are no longer enrolled at the school.
NBC’s comic institution “Saturday Night Live,” criticized recently for a lack of diversity, said on Monday that it hired Sasheer Zamata — a 27-year-old black woman from Indianapolis — for its repertory cast when new episodes start again later this month.
Lindsey Vonn will miss the Sochi Olympics because of a right knee injury, leaving the Winter Games without one of its biggest stars.
The group of NBA players scheduled to play with Dennis Rodman against a team of North Koreans on Wednesday privately expressed second thoughts about going ahead because of an outpouring of criticism back home in the U.S.
A new all-electric race car made its debut Monday at a makeshift racetrack behind the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.