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It was a good year to be a Jennifer in Hollywood, but it was an even better year to be an Emma.

Forbes released its annual list of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses Wednesday and Oscar-winning "La La Land" star Emma ...Read more

BEIRUT -- The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's deadly van attack in Spain's Mediterranean city of Barcelona.

At least 12 people have died and about 80 were injured when a van plowed ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Just days after coming to President Donald Trump's defense in the wake of Charlottesville, Franklin Graham sent out a new Facebook post Thursday in which he appeared to distance himself from the ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Chicago police say there are "inconsistencies" in a man's claims that he shot and killed three people after they broke into his home on Chicago's Southeast Side over the weekend.

The man, in his 30s, was taken ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- An African-American Democratic senator often mentioned as a possible 2020 presidential candidate intends to introduce a bill that would force the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol.

But the...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A majority of Americans in a new poll say President Donald Trump's response to the violence that broke out a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., was "not strong enough."

Fifty-two percent of ...Read more

DURHAM, N.C. -- A vandal or vandals defaced the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee near the entrance of Duke Chapel on the Duke University campus.

The incident happened sometime overnight, Duke University spokesman ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- When the curtain finally rose and those first familiar notes of "Hamilton" rang out inside the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on opening night Wednesday, the audience erupted in applause so loud the first line ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ric Flair's fiancee shared more details of his illness in a Facebook post, and his condition is more serious than fans imagined for the hospitalized wrestling icon.

Media outlets including The New York ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Baltimore's Confederate monuments have been relegated to a city-owned lot, where they stood Thursday morning covered by tarps and under the protection of a police officer.

The statues, which were removed from...Read more

Executives with the television branch of Marvel Comics have been building toward the launch of "Marvel's The Defenders" since the debut of "Daredevil" on Netflix in 2015. The tale of the blind lawyer turned super hero ...Read more

It was about this time last year when a thought-provoking film came to rescue the summer, at least on an emotional, intellectual level.

"Hell or High Water," written by Taylor Sheridan, explored desperation in America's ...Read more

American politics used to divide itself into two generally opposing streams: Liberals leaned left. Conservatives leaned right.

Then came the era of Donald Trump, and the political landscape shifted from a two-lane highway...Read more

In an auditorium filled to capacity Wednesday, mourners in Charlottesville, Va., grieved the woman killed last weekend when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally.

Many of those who ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Broward County Sheriff's Office arrested a veteran deputy Wednesday, accusing him of secretly recording security video that showed a gunman shooting at passengers in January at Fort Lauderdale-...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A California congresswoman is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from the presidency under a never-before-used constitutional provision.

Rep. Jackie Speier, a San Francisco-area Democrat,...Read more

WASHINGTON -- All around the country, officials are discussing whether to remove memorials and rename public spaces dedicated to Confederate leaders. But not at the Pentagon.

Three of the largest military bases in the ...Read more

MIAMI -- Everybody agreed: When Gladys Coego covertly filled in other people's absentee ballots while working at the Miami-Dade elections headquarters, she chipped away at the integrity of the voting system.

But at 74, ...Read more

MIAMI--Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Miami on Wednesday to deliver a stark warning on the dangers of "criminal aliens" and praised the county's mayor for being the only big-city leader to abandon "sanctuary" ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ripped Chicago for its defiant "sanctuary city" stance against turning over local prisoners for deportation, once again blaming the city's surge in crime on ...Read more