AKCAKALE, Turkey -- By the time U.S. forces withdrew Tuesday from the northern Syrian city of Manbij, it had become the prize in a race for territory involving a mix of fighting groups with changing alliances.

The city, part of the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters backed by the United States until last week, appeared on the verge of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Police Department leaders announced changes Tuesday to a controversial program that predicts where property crimes could occur throughout the city.

The changes come seven months after an inspector general couldn't determine whether the department's predictive-policing program, called PredPol, helped reduce crime. ...Read more

NEW YORK -- U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Turkey's Halkbank, accusing it of fraud, money laundering and violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, in a case that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had pressed both President Donald Trump and President Barack Obama to dismiss.

Prosecutors accused the bank of participating in a ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Imprisoned Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke formally resigned from the Police Department last week, a police spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

Van Dyke, who is currently serving a nearly 7-year prison sentence for the slaying of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, stepped down ahead of formal termination proceedings before the Chicago Police Board, ...Read more

CHICAGO -- A woman known as the "serial stowaway" was ordered held without bail Tuesday after her arrest over the weekend as she once again allegedly tried to pass a security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport.

Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas, who sentenced Marilyn Hartman to 18 months of probation in March for a felony trespassing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. appeals court in Virginia agreed to reconsider a Maryland and District of Columbia lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of using his office to enrich himself in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

A three-judge panel had rejected the case in July. That decision overturned a pair of trial court rulings that had let the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Census Bureau wants even more details on American residents, requesting states to provide driver's license and administrative records to add to a trove of federal data being collected by the agency in its census count.

Officials plan to use the administrative records to help catch people who might not otherwise respond to...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Under questioning from prosecutors, Markeith Loyd testified Tuesday he was in "warrior mode" when he shot his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon, killing her and their unborn child.

On the witness stand in his trial at the Orange County Courthouse, Loyd said the shooting wasn't his fault because he had been attacked by Dixon's ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Under questioning from prosecutors, Markeith Loyd testified Tuesday he was in "warrior mode" when he shot his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon, killing her and their unborn child.

On the witness stand in his trial at the Orange County Courthouse, Loyd said the shooting wasn't his fault because he had been attacked by Dixon's ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- For the last 2 1/2 years of haphazard foreign policy under President Donald Trump, the refrain of reassurance was that at least the unconventional leader had not been faced with a major international crisis.

Now, Trump faces one of his own making -- something he started and might not be able to stop.

Until now, the consequences ...Read more

Actress Felicity Huffman on Tuesday reported to a federal prison in Northern California, where she will spend two weeks behind bars for conspiring to rig her daughter's college entrance exams.

Huffman, 56, will serve her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, a low-security facility in Alameda County that houses about 1,200...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The 13-year-old Overland Park, Kan., girl who was arrested for pointing a finger gun at classmates has a chance of entering a diversion program to address her behavior instead of juvenile detention for a felony.

In her bright pink sweater, the bespectacled girl entered the Johnson County courtroom Tuesday morning clinging ...Read more