CHICAGO -- Jackie Wilson, one of two brothers convicted of killing two Chicago police officers, walked out of Cook County Jail, a free man for the first time in more than 36 years.

The sudden freedom for Wilson, 57, came after Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks ordered his release a few hours earlier. The judge had tossed out Wilson's ...Read more

As four federal lawmakers from Florida walked into the shelter housing 1,179 migrant children in Homestead Saturday, five elected officials were denied access to the facility.

The group of state and local Democrats who wanted to assess conditions in the shelter were dismayed when they were told they had to request a tour two weeks in advance.

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A young girl sobs. Standing over her is a smiling Donald Trump. "Welcome to America," the accompanying text reads.

The cover of Time's July 2 edition lifts the image of a 2-year-old Honduran girl, Yanela Sanchez, from a photo of her crying as a Border Patrol agent pats down her mother at the border in Texas. Yanela's image is plopped onto a red...Read more

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ––Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said a "well-orchestrated attack" that injured scores of people in the capital Addis Ababa has failed to sow discord as the country embarks on a series of political and economic reforms.

"Whoever is trying to darken our joy and love, dilute our unity, you will not succeed," Abiy ...Read more

In a quiet nook in the small city of La Verne, small cottages topped with Spanish tile are spread across a green campus.

Long ago, it was an orphanage. Now it's a group home for foster children. Recently, it also became one of several shelters in the Los Angeles area that began to house children who have been split from their parents at the ...Read more

BRUSSELS –– The European Union says it will continue a tit-for-tat escalation in its trade dispute with the U.S. while countering President Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. is being treated unfairly by the 28-nation bloc.

Jyrki Katainen, the EU commissioner in charge of jobs and growth, told the French newspaper Le Monde in a story ...Read more

VATICAN CITY –– A former Vatican career diplomat was sentenced Saturday to five years in prison over child pornography charges.

Vatican judges took just two days to hear the case against Italian Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella, who was found guilty of possessing and distributing child pornography.

The priest, who was also fined $5,800, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- With the flow of refugees into the U.S. at a trickle, many who work with new arrivals worry that the low numbers will have a lasting impact on economies, schools and families in places like San Diego, where many used to resettle.

The International Rescue Committee, a resettlement agency with offices in the San Diego area, released ...Read more

Katie Arrington, who defeated Rep. Mark Sanford in the South Carolina Republican primary this month, was seriously injured in a car accident Friday night.

Her Democratic opponent in the general election, Joe Cunningham, said Saturday morning that he is suspending campaign activities until further notice.

"Katie sustained a fracture in her back...Read more

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday extended sanctions against North Korea for one year, saying it still posed an "extraordinary threat" despite days earlier insisting Pyongyang was no longer a nuclear danger to the U.S.

The sanctions were renewed under an executive order reauthorizing a "national emergency" originally put in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A year ago, President Donald Trump announced tougher policies concerning Cuba, reinstating travel and trade restrictions eased by the historic Obama-era opening between Washington and Havana.

As a result, the United States today is largely sitting on the sidelines as the communist-ruled island faces potentially major changes in ...Read more

WASHINGTON--Rain Valladares wiped tears from her eyes this week as she recounted the hours before a gunman invaded the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., with an AR-15 and killed 17.

But she was in Washington to talk about the future of activism, not the past.

"We have a huge problem with gun violence," Valladares...Read more

Jonenskia Hector's best chance at life is a passport.

Diagnosed with a large hole in her heart, the 8-year-old girl has been waiting for months to have a life-saving surgery that isn't available in Haiti to repair the defect. Last year, after applying for a passport and being told there was a problem with her documents, she lost her surgical ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Prosecutors want to ask potential jurors for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial about their views of the Internal Revenue Service and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The government submitted a 20-page written questionnaire for potential jurors on Thursday that prosecutors say is necessary, in addition to standard ...Read more

NEW YORK -- The U.S. has "indefinitely suspended" military exercises in South Korea to foster Washington's fledgling relationship with Pyongyang in the wake of President Donald Trump's meeting in Singapore earlier this month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis suspended the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises as well...Read more

As US airlines resist flying immigrant children taken from parents, Volaris offers to reunite families

Several of the nation's biggest airlines, including American and United, have jumped into the fray over children who were being separated from their parents under the Trump administration's controversial immigration policy.

The carriers ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's two top Middle East advisers have quietly crisscrossed the region all week, stopping in five countries in an effort to drum up support for their still-secret proposal to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Details of the plan that Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, and Jason ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Stephanie Clifford, the adult-movie star professionally known as Stormy Daniels, wants the lawsuit alleging her former lawyer colluded with Donald Trump's longtime attorney Michael Cohen sent back to state court.

Cohen used "procedural gamesmanship" to have the case she filed June 6 in California state court in Los Angeles ...Read more

Wyandotte County, Kan., District Attorney Mark A. Dupree said Friday that his office has charged Antoine Fielder with two counts of capital murder in the shooting deaths of two sheriff's deputies while they were transporting Fielder after a court hearing in downtown Kansas City, Kan.

Capital murder in Kansas carries the possibility of the death...Read more