WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, ending a yearslong legal battle and allowing him to return home a free man for the first time since 2012.
Twenty-nine people were unaccounted for as residents of Ruidoso, which was evacuated last week in advance of two wildfires, were allowed back Monday to see if their homes were still standing.
A pregnant 18-year-old was shot and lost her fetus when a Milwaukee police officer fired on a stolen vehicle connected to two carjackings that led police on a chase Thursday afternoon, the city's police chief said.
A second death was reported Wednesday in a pair of wildfires in New Mexico that have forced the evacuation of thousands of people in and around the town of Ruidoso.
New York and San Francisco Giants icon Willie Mays, considered by many the greatest all-around baseball player of the 20th century, died Tuesday at 93.
Willie Mays slides safely into the plate on Wes Westrum's base in the sixth inning of the game against the Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, New York, on April 1, 1951.
A Customs and Border Protection officer pleaded guilty to stealing more than $18,000 from arriving international flight passengers by swiping the cash while doing currency verifications at a Florida airport, officials said.
More than 500 structures have been damaged in New Mexico wildfires that forced the evacuation of an entire town of more than 7,000 people, officials said Tuesday as the fires remained active and uncontained.
Residents in the New Mexico village of Ruidoso were told to immediately flee Monday due to a wildfire that had grown to more than 1,300 acres, officials said.
A driver who responded to being cut off by shooting at a womanβs car and then turning and firing at bystanders in Washington, D.C., was sentenced Monday to over 32 years in prison, prosecutors said.