WASHINGTON -- Nebraska has been dubbed a "sleeper" Senate race and rated as competitive by some handicappers. House Democrats just came close to winning a special election in a congressional district President Donald Trump won by 21 points, so how vulnerable is GOP Sen. Deb Fischer?

At a minimum, the senator faces a spirited challenge from ...Read more

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Those who know William Bosanko know better than to ask his opinion about President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Martha Wagner Murphy's husband is under orders not to reveal details of what she does for a living.

The two of them have led the final efforts at the National Archives to make public all government records ...Read more

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- A Montgomery County jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of the only criminal charges to emerge from a career-ending scandal fueled by dozens of women who accused the entertainer once known as "America's Dad" of sexual assault.

After about 13 hours of deliberation, the panel of seven men and five women on Thursday convicted him ...Read more

CHICAGO -- When Sarah Blaylock joined the staff of Twin Peaks in Orland Park, a Chicago suburb, she signed an agreement that laid out the expectations for a "Twin Peaks Girl."

She said she understood that the lodge-themed restaurant chain wanted its all-female waitstaff to be physically fit and well-groomed. She said she felt comfortable ...Read more

It's been nearly 16 years since cleanup work officially ended at New York City's ground zero, but the health effects for rescue and recovery workers are still making themselves known.

Two studies published Thursday in the journal JAMA Oncology suggest that the firefighters who came to lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Three people were killed and three others were wounded by gunfire in Chicago Wednesday and early Thursday, including a 16-year-old boy and a suspected carjacker shot by a retired police officer.

The 16-year-old, Martin Duncan, died after he was shot several times in the 4800 block of West Monroe Street in the South Austin ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Chicago police are investigating whether former security guards at Holy Name Cathedral may have played a role in the theft of up to $100,000 from the historic church's collection plate, according to preliminary information from police sources and the security company.

No one is in custody, but multiple suspects have been identified, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's White House physician, Adm. Ronny Jackson, withdrew his nomination to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs on Thursday, citing the "distraction" from a string of what he termed "completely false and fabricated" allegations.

"While I will forever be grateful for the trust and confidence President Trump ...Read more

Larry Pool's life mission was to track down the Original Night Stalker.

The retired Orange County sheriff's investigator studied thousands of clues, kept a recording of the killer's voice in his desk's top drawer and once exhumed a body to collect a DNA sample.

He knew by heart the killer's path. And his fervor was shared by countless others ...Read more

In a meandering interview on "Fox & Friends" Thursday morning that turned at times into an angry phone rant, President Donald Trump admitted that Michael Cohen represented him in the Stormy Daniels case and confirmed he did stay overnight in Moscow hotel, contradicting a claim he made to then FBI Director James Comey.

Cohen, Trump's longtime ...Read more

TEHRAN, Iran -- The latest threat to Iran's theocracy -- already struggling to contain public anger over unemployment, economic mismanagement, bank failures, social restrictions and environmental damage -- seems to have risen from the dead.

Construction workers renovating a Shiite Muslim shrine near the former tomb of Reza Shah Pahlavi in ...Read more