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WASHINGTON -- The White House defended the Border Patrol on Friday after a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died in its custody of exhaustion and dehydration, but the child's death -- and the agency's weeklong delay in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The FBI analysts sat mutely, listening intently to the scratchy audio feed from an interview room across the hall.

The two women were anxious, having spent months collecting and assessing ephemeral crumbs ...Read more

STRASBOURG, France -- Strasbourg's traditional Christmas market reopened on Friday morning, hours after the suspect in this week's gun and knife attack was shot dead by police.

But the return to normality was marred by ...Read more

Grammy-winning Colombian singer Shakira was charged with tax evasion on Friday by Spanish prosecutors alleging that the artist failed to pay more than $16 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014, according to the Associated...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Jacquelyn Smith was supposed to travel to California this week with family to attend her son's graduation from an information technology program with the U.S. Coast Guard.

Instead, the family will gather in ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Sensing an embarrassing re-election loss after President Donald Trump's 2016 election and a narrow primary victory in March, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner spent months last spring and summer actively seeking out ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The mother of Kenneka Jenkins, the young woman from Chicago who was found dead in the freezer of a Rosemont, Ill., hotel, has filed a long-anticipated lawsuit against the hotel, its security contractor and even ...Read more

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Students at Sandy Hook Elementary School were sent home Friday after police say the school received a threat.

Students had been dismissed by late morning, officials said, but police were confident they ...Read more

DETROIT -- With his wife crying in the courtroom, a Rochester Hills, Mich., man was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on an airplane, sticking his hands down her pants and ...Read more

"Tidelands," a supernatural seaside crime thriller that gets underway Friday, has the distinction of being the first original production by Australian Netflix, and that is the most distinctive thing about it.

Still, ...Read more

Eliza Dushku, an actress on the popular CBS show "Bull," was paid $9.5 million to confidentially settle allegations that she was dismissed from the series after she complained about being harassed on set, sources confirmed...Read more

It's time to find more meaningful work for the coffee-fetching intern.

After years of experiments, Starbucks said Thursday it plans a major expansion of U.S. coffee delivery. By early spring, the Seattle coffee giant ...Read more

Once again, so-called "peak TV" has reached a new peak.

The entertainment industry this year produced a record 495 original scripted TV shows, fueled by a surge in programming from Netflix and other streaming services ...Read more

Emmet Otter is not the most famous Muppet in Jim Henson's universe of characters. But Hollywood will still embrace the occasional second act, and the leader of the Frogtown Hollow Jubilee Jug Band in 1977 TV special "Emmet...Read more

In Susanne Bier's "Bird Box," an end-of-days freakout starring Sandra Bullock, the world is overrun by an inexplicable menace with a clever plan for wiping out humanity. To those of us in the audience, the creatures (or ...Read more

Acting in a movie at 88 is not out of the question, and neither is directing one. But both directing yourself and acting in a major studio release at that advanced age is next door to unheard of. Until Clint Eastwood ...Read more

"Mortal Engines" is such a visual marvel, such a dazzling, pictorially involving imagining of the future, it's a shame it's not completely worth seeing.

For though it's based on the first volume of Philip Reeve's highly ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Life in the minority will be a new experience for most House Republicans next year. And many of them may not remember what happened the last time the GOP lost the House.

After the 2006 Democratic wave, about...Read more

Apple will expand its workforce at new and existing offices across the country and plans to build a billion-dollar campus for 5,000 additional employees in Austin, Texas.

Though Austin will land the biggest part of the ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors said this week that at least one unidentified member of Donald Trump's campaign joined his lawyer Michael Cohen and the publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer, David Pecker, in a 2015 ...Read more