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Panicking people ran out of buildings in many areas and roads were clogged as people fled coastal areas in fear of a tsunami.        

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Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone on Friday beat a defamation case by a political rival who claimed the self-described "Dirty Trickster" falsely portrayed him as a child molester. Five of six Manhattan Supreme Court jur...

Top Democrat says move against House inquiry is a ploy to damage Mueller-FBI investigation, while Trump declines to rule out pardoning Michael Flynn The senior Democrat in a congressional Trump-Russia investigation has s...

With a solid business foundation set in Crystal Lake, the owners of Pablo's Mexican Restaurant have been looking for an opportunity to expand. It presented itself at Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee. For more than three d...

A Chicago Heights police lieutenant was suspended for 20 days in October after he allegedly assaulted a man at a Lynwood bar while off duty, police disciplinary records show. Keith Applequist, 47, was not criminally char...

There is evidence of torture and abuse of civilians in detention which the Rwandan government cannot deny.

The North Korean soldier, 24-year-old Oh Chong Song, was transferred to the military hospital on Friday from a trauma center at Ajou University Hospital south of Seoul, where his treatment for gunshot wounds and pre-exis...

Fourth-largest wildfire in state history threatens 18,000 buildings One firefighter has died in huge effort to contain the blaze The Thomas fire, the 11-day-old and fourth-largest wildfire in California history, continue...

A man who robbed a Northwest Side bank Thursday was arrested when police cornered him in a forest preserve after he crashed his car and had to turn back when he found he couldn't swim across the Chicago River, according ...

We appear to have a deal on taxes. From changes to the home mortgage interest deduction to what wasn't included in the charitable donation deduction, here's what's in the final tax reform bill.

Roy Moore -- who has still not conceded in the Alabama Senate race -- is reportedly asking supporters for a donations for an “election integrity fund.” Moore’s campaign sent a letter to his supporters that seeks he...

Nathan Heller on the documentary film "Killing for Love," by Karin Steinberger and Marcus Vetter, which explores the case of Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering, who were convicted in the 1985 slayings of Haysom's parents.

As assailants in Hollywood, media and politics fall, will the Harasser in Chief elude the posse of women lawmakers giving chase?

Andrea Ramsey is accused of sexually harassing a male subordinate in 2005

The venue that entertained the razed camp's migrants will reopen in France - as its playwright founders find acclaim at the Young Vic When the tent in Calais that housed the Good Chance Theatre came down in the spring of...

LOS ANGELES – A California wildfire was close on Saturday to becoming the state's third largest blaze on record, with more devastation possible from a resurgence of the harsh winds that have fueled the deadly fire's gr...

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Women in Saudi Arabia will be able to drive trucks and motorcycles as well as cars when new rules are introduced next June.

Michael ruled Romania twice before being forced to abdicate in 1947

Ibrahim Abu Thurayyah, who lost his legs in a 2008 Israeli air raid, was killed on Friday during a protest in Gaza.

It's the widest-ranging reshaping of the tax code in three decades