The coronavirus from China infected Wall Street Monday, as U.S. stocks took a beating Monday amid fears the outbreak that hobbled the world’s No. 2 economy would carve through Europe and make South Korea’s economic engine seize up, too.
A New York jury issued Monday a split verdict in the Harvey Weinstein case, finding the onetime Hollywood studio boss guilty of two felony sex crimes, but not the most serious assault charges against him, in an explosive case that galvanized the #MeToo movement.
An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits.
Connecticut Republicans will honor three high school runners who are suing to block a policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports, the party chairman said Monday.
An attorney for Harvey Weinstein said the disgraced movie mogul was stunned after Monday’s guilty verdict on sexual-assault charges, asking, “How can this happen in America?”
Police are investigating vandalism at an office for former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign on Chicago’s North Side.
Deputies have removed about 70 dogs and other animals from a north Florida rescue group because of unsanitary conditions, authorities said.
A former West Virginia state worker has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and ordered to pay over $61,000 restitution after pleading guilty to using a state purchasing card to make personal purchases.
A former Florida prison guard has been convicted of conspiring to assault young inmates at a South Florida facility.
A jury could vote Tuesday on whether a Florida man convicted of killing a woman and her 11-year-old daughter should receive the death penalty.
A sporting compromise to host shooting and archery championships in India five months before the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is likely to give India and Australia an eventual boost in the overall medal standings.
A Kentucky woman has been accused of stealing luggage from passengers at an airport on two occasions.
New York prosecutorsare hailing Harvey Weinstein's conviction as a pivotal moment that could change the way the legal system views a type of sexual assault case historically considered difficult to prove.
A California appeals court on Monday blocked the release of a man dubbed the “Bolder Than Most" rapist who was charged with a string of bizarre and brutal attacks in the San Diego area in the 1980s.
A court in eastern China has sentenced a seller of books that took a skeptical look at the ruling Communist Party to 10 years in prison for “illegally providing intelligence overseas," in a further sign of Beijing’s hard line toward its critics.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of those responsible for the death of a Red Rock man last year.
Police in Phoenix have identified a man who was found fatally shot in his car and say it’s a homicide case.
A federal judge has ordered U.S. and California officials to answer local concerns about plans to relocate coronavirus patients to Southern California.
A staffer with Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign was fired after a Daily Beast report about his having regularly mocked the Vermont socialist's Democratic-primary rivals and their families in sexist, homophobic and other personal terms.
Australia faces an unprecedented threat from espionage and foreign interference but bans on such covert meddling are paying dividends, an Australian spymaster said.
Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont on Monday slapped down reports that he considered launching a primary challenge against then-President Obama in 2012, chalking it up to the "silly season" of the nomination race, and voicing his admiration for the ex-president's record.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and South Korean counterpart Jeong Kyeong-doo acknowledged Monday they still have a lot of work to resolve a divisive dispute over the payments for the U.S. troops defending Seoul from North Korea on the divided Korean peninsula.
Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont said Monday it would be a "serious, serious, problem" for the Democratic Party if the presidential nomination is steered away from a candidate that collects the most pledged delegates, but falls short of sewing up the nomination outright.
The Trump administration late Monday asked Congress for $2.5 billion to combat the coronavirus from China, underscoring fears the wily pathogen that's taken root in Italy, Iran and elsewhere could spread within the U.S. and upend public health and the economy in an election year.
