So many gray whales are dying off the U.S. West Coast that there is an urgent need for private beaches so the putrid carcasses of the ocean giants can rot in peace.
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A judge appointed a special prosecutor Friday to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to dismiss all charges against actor Jussie Smollett.
The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor’s efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial.
A bleak portrait emerged Thursday after 60 children were interviewed at a facility near El Paso where attorneys say young migrants are describing neglect and mistreatment.
Joe Biden has sat atop the crowded Democratic presidential field from virtually the moment he joined the race.
A Georgia woman who was bitten by a rattlesnake while gardening has died.
Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny fish. After growing to roughly 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) in indoor tanks, they could be served in restaurants by late next year.
It’s a difficult time for the Pentagon to be without a permanent U.S. defense secretary.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was “cocked and loaded’ to retaliate against Iran for downing an American drone, but canceled the missile strikes 10 minutes before they were to be executed after being told some 150 people could die.
Several hundred protesters, mainly students, gathered Friday outside Hong Kong government offices, with some blocking traffic on a major thoroughfare and others occupying the lobby of a government tax office.
A fire at a 150-year-old refinery complex in Philadelphia turned the early morning sky a bright orange and yellow and awakened startled residents with explosions that shook homes Friday.
A U.S. official said the military made preparations Thursday night for limited strikes on Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, but approval was abruptly withdrawn before the attacks were launched.
“I ain’t never took a life in my life,” Marion Wilson Jr. said as part of a final statement before receiving a deadly injection of pentobarbital.
President Donald Trump met with congressional leaders as well as military and foreign policy advisers after Iran admitted it shot down an American drone.
The suit also accused top NRA official Chris W. Cox of conspiring with North to oust the organization’s chief executive, Wayne LaPierre.