LOS ANGELES -- While the New York chapter of Harvey Weinstein's criminal prosecution is over, pending an appeal and sentencing, the legal saga will soon move to Los Angeles.

Last month, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey filed charges of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of restraint and sexual ...Read more

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Dozens of people were injured in the German town of Volkmarsen on Monday when a car apparently driven by a local man crashed into a Carnival parade.

Police said they suspect the driver deliberately steered his vehicle into the parade, and they opened an investigation into attempted homicide.

A police spokesperson said ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Katherine Johnson, the NASA Langley Research Center mathematician who went from "hidden" to hero in her late 90s, died Monday morning at the age of 101.

In the early days of the space program, before the advent of modern computers, Johnson's precise trajectory calculations – done with pencil and paper, or chalk and ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Harvey Weinstein was convicted of two of five counts Monday, marking a climactic end to a high-profile case that in some ways serves as vindication of the #MeToo movement.

During the six-week trial, a physically diminished Weinstein shuffled in and out of a 15th-floor courtroom with the aid of a walker. He appeared stoic as six ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- A student with celiac disease has filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Maryland, College Park, alleging the institution discriminated against her medical condition and repeatedly served her foods containing gluten.

Allegany County native Hannah Smith filed the complaint Feb. 20, describing several incidents in which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- As mourners gathered at Staples Center on Monday for a memorial service celebrate the lives of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, attorneys for Vanessa Bryant filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter that crashed last month and claimed the lives of her husband, daughter and seven other people.

The ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Joe Biden unveiled a new $640 billion housing plan on Monday that includes certain homeowner and renter protections already in place in California.

While he won't cap annual rent increases, which California lawmakers did last year, he supports a national Bill of Rights similar to the California Homeowner Bill of Rights.

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New research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Rochester eases long-standing fears that thawing Arctic permafrost could belch out mass amounts of climate-warming methane gas.

Scientists had warned of a scenario in which the thawing tundra could release enough methane to sharply accelerate global warming. However, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- In the long slog of presidential elections, candidates don't have to think about New Jersey much because it usually holds its primary in June, after the likely nominee is obvious.

Enter Mike Bloomberg and his billions of dollars.

The former New York mayor and Republican-turned-Democrat opened his first campaign office in New ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has a lot riding on a precarious agreement with Taliban militants to end America's longest war. But the process, which began over the weekend, is fraught with obstacles that could lengthen the conflict rather than conclude it.

The first step in the deal agreed to by the U.S. and the Taliban is a seven-day ...Read more

LONDON -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was called a threat to the people "who put their lives at risk to assist the U.S." on the first day of his extradition trial in London.

James Lewis, a lawyer for the U.S., told a London court that Assange's case has little to do with freedom of the press. Instead, he tried to narrow the focus of the U....Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A vocal Bernie Sanders supporter. A Chicagoan with zero followers on Twitter. A dozen registered Republicans. These are some of the digital soldiers Michael R. Bloomberg's presidential campaign has recruited in California to boost the former New York mayor's online profile in preparation for the March 3 Democratic primary.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The highest-ranking African-American in Congress warned that if Bernie Sanders is the 2020 Democratic nominee the party could lose many of the moderate seats they won to retake the House in 2018.

"It's going to be tough to hold on to these jobs if you have to make the case for a self-proclaimed democratic socialist," House ...Read more

Finance chiefs from the world's 20 largest economies haggled over climate change and proposals for a global tax regime as they tried to draft a joint communique at a conference overshadowed by a viral outbreak that's shaken the global economy.

Delegates at the G-20 meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, spent much of their time talking about a global...Read more

NEW YORK -- As the jurors in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial wrestle with a pair of charges that could send the fallen movie mogul to prison for life, the testimony of three women who don't even appear in his indictment could help seal his fate.

They're known as Molineux witnesses in New York, where Weinstein is being tried, and they ...Read more