Gene Wilder, the beloved actor from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, died on Sunday. He was 83. In 1991, just two years after Wilder's third wife, comedian Gilda Radner, died of ovarian cancer, the actor penned a personal essay in PEOPLE ...
Hackers targeted voter registration systems in Illinois and Arizona, and the FBI alerted Arizona officials in June that Russians were behind the assault on the election system in that state.
It has been a hard couple of weeks for Obamacare. The law's online marketplaces - where people were supposed to be able to easily shop for health insurance - have been suffering from high-profile defections and double-digit premium increases.
After two earlier sexting scandals, Mr. Weiner did not vanish from public life. This time, his wife, Ms. Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide, is separating from him.
Donald J. Trump at a Republican presidential debate in March in Detroit. Mr. Trump spent hours with his debate team the past two Sundays, but he said, “I believe you can prep too much for those things.
Turkish armor last week in the border city of Karkamis, heading toward the Syrian border town of Jarabulus. Credit Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images.
SANAA, Yemen - A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Monday killed at least 54 pro-government recruits, officials said, underscoring how the militant group has been able to exploit Yemen's civil war to ...
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's suspended president proclaimed her innocence Monday, branding her vice president a "usurper" and warning senators that history would judge them harshly if they ousted a democratically elected leader on false charges.
NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Monday for Bangladesh to step up efforts to fight extremist violence, come to terms with links between local and international militants and protect and promote human rights.
EGG HARBOR TWP. - One person was killed and four others were wounded in a shooting that began on the Atlantic City Expressway and ended with victims on the Garden State Parkway and in a Wawa parking lot, according to New Jersey State Police.
ITHACA, N.Y. - An Ithaca College student fatally stabbed at Cornell University was attacked while trying to help a fellow student amid a series of fights after a weekend party, his sister said Monday.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed legislation outlawing the use of bullhooks to handle and control elephants in California even as many animal-handlers have stopped using the devices.
MIAMI - The Latest on tropical storms (all times EDT): 5:55 p.m.. Some vacationers along North Carolina's Outer Banks expressed little concern about a storm approaching the barrier islands.
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's campaign is disavowing support from a prominent white nationalist, David Duke, who is once again causing problems for the Republican nominee by claiming that Trump is a kindred spirit.
The Democratic Party's national Senate campaign arm has canceled more than a week of television ads that were set to run next month in the key battleground of Ohio, where former governor Ted Strickland (D) has struggled to gain traction against ...
On the subject of Roger Ailes, the Donald Trump campaign's official story is - like so many of the candidate's positions - somewhat less than consistent.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—In Florida's late-in-the-season Senate primary Tuesday, Rep. Patrick Murphy, a centrist Democrat, is expected to easily defeat Rep. Alan Grayson to face Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in the fall.
The Apple campus in Cork, Ireland. Apple is said to have used complicated tax structures in nations like Ireland to reduce the amount of corporate tax it pays in other countries.
The president of American Airlines Group Inc., AAL -0.17 % who was let go on Monday with more than $13 million in severance pay, is immediately taking up the same senior role at rival United Continental Holdings Inc., UAL 0.17 % in one of the most ...
For years, American businesses have been clamoring for the government to roll out a set of regulations for drone technology so that the companies can legally start using them for everything from agriculture to filmmaking to delivering packages.
We've seen a ton of leaked iPhone 7 photos and videos, but many of them show iPhone 7 clones rather than actual iPhone 7 units, even if these fakes are based on actual iPhone 7 schematics.
The MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac updates we've been waiting for could be getting close, and Apple is reportedly planning new software features for the iPad Pro.
Pokémon Go developer Niantic is reversing some permanent account bans it mistakenly issued over the last few weeks, the company announced today in a blog post.
It's the question fans of Drihanna/Aubrih have been asking since Drake and Rihanna first sparked rumors of a potential love connection - which, let's be honest, isn't particularly hard to believe considering the pair's undeniable chemistry, made ...
As everyone knows by now, Blac Chyna just followed in Kim Kardashian's bare-bottomed footsteps by posing completely nude on the cover of Paper magazine's 1,000 Beautiful People issue.
After much speculation over the future of the show, Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, Sasha Pieterse and creator I. Marlene King announced the "bittersweet" news in a Facebook Live broadcast from the show's set, where they're ...
Singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson has accused the Academy of Country Music of exploiting the legacy of Merle Haggard by creating an award in his name, despite the late artist not having held the organization in high regard.
With defensive end Joey Bosa finally agreeing to terms with the Chargers, plenty of the people who were pressuring Bosa to cave will be ready to point to his holdout, if he struggles as a rookie.
Talk of Colin Kaepernick's decision to sit down during the national anthem reached far beyond football Monday. And many weren't thrilled with the San Francisco 49ers quarterback's strong words about why he is doing it: to instigate change and challenge ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Carolina Panthers filled arguably the biggest hole on their roster Monday by acquiring three-time Pro Bowl punter Andy Lee in a trade with the Cleveland Browns.
John Isner, left, after his five-set victory over Frances Tiafoe in their opening match at the United States Open. “You've got a great future,” Isner told him.
John Kappelman, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin, with 3-D printouts of Lucy's skeleton. Credit Marsha Miller/University of Texas at Austin.
Nuclear test explosion in Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, in 1971. The official expert group says the Anthropocene should begin about 1950 and is likely to be defined by the radioactive elements dispersed across Earth by nuclear bomb tests.
An international group of astronomers has detected an interesting radio signal spike, one that could possibly be of alien origin, from a star system located 95 light-years away.
Here's another reason it will be hard to get rid of Zika: Mosquitoes can pass the virus to their offspring in their eggs. It's not a surprising finding.
Scientists have discovered three existing drugs - used for cancer, hepatitis C and for parasitic infections - that they say appear promising against the Zika virus.
The nation's pediatricians are pushing back against parents who resist having their children vaccinated against a broad range of dangerous diseases by calling on states to stop offering waivers to those with non-medical objections to the practice.