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Micheline Hess imagines finding a Magic 8 Ball with sexist tendencies.

While a comedic "Home Alone" sequel played in movie theaters across America, David and Sharon Schoo took a nine-day vacation in Mexico, leaving their 9- and 4-year-old daughters alone for Christmas in their St. Charles-a...

The Defense Department has issued detailed new policy guidance to military recruiters for how to enlist transgender men and women into the armed forces, intensifying an emotionally charged legal fight over whether the Pe...

The FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man suspected of robbing four northwest suburban banks within three weeks, including on Wednesday. The man robbed a TCF Bank branch at 217 Ir...

Republican senators who worked swiftly last summer to help write legislation protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller now are showing little urgency to get those measures passed. The legislation, which would allow a pan...

"We'll save a lot. We don't care," the U.S. president said

Seoul’s Defense Ministry says the shootout happened after a North Korean soldier safely arrived at a front-line South Korean guard post on Thursday.        

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Sen. Al Franken plans to officially leave the U.S. Senate on Jan. 2. The announcement Wednesday from a Franken spokesman should put to rest questions surrounding the timing of the Minnesota Democrat’...

Firefighters doused hot spots Thursday as winds increased that could whip up embers and cause flare-ups at the gigantic wildfire still smoldering northwest of Los Angeles

On Wednesday, President Trump issued his first prison sentence commutation. Trump commuted the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, 57, a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive who was sentenced in 2009 to 27 years for ban...

President Donald Trump has become increasingly concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which has been made worse by years of fighting between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led international coalition, a United Ki...

LONDON - Britain’s First Secretary of State Damian Green was forced to resign Wednesday after an investigation found that he had made “misleading” and “inaccurate” statements about pornographic images found on ...

Verbal harassment and rape are both wrong, but there's a difference.

A Mexican man with a prodigious penis said his member is preventing him from penetrating the job market. Roberto Esquivel Cabrera has registered as disabled, claiming his 1.5- foot-long pride and joy makes it simply impo...

In Columbia, Md., a planned community where equality strikes a deep chord, residents worry that the just-passed tax law's ripple effect will widen the income gap.

A Canadian family whose $846,000 inheritance was lost by UPS will finally get the cash back from their bank, 10 months after their ordeal started, the CBC reported. “It’s clear to us we didn’t get this right along ...

The world lost Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Petty, Chuck Berry and others this year

More than 60,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2016, up 21 percent from the year before, according to a new report.

EUGENE, Ore. -- A man has threatened to sue city officials in Eugene, Oregon, because of a Christmas banner that he believes is a violation of the separation of church and state. The banner that stretches above a downtow...

Russia's Foreign Ministry has dismissed the U.S. claim that a new Russian missile violates a Cold War-era arms treaty. The U.S. and NATO have voiced concern that a new Russian …

A mother accused of taking her 8-year-old son to hospitals and pediatric centers more than 320 times, subjecting him to 13 unneeded surgeries, has lost custody of the boy. A judge on Wednesday granted temporary conservat...

It fell for the second year in a row