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A 15-year-old Western Springs boy was killed Monday evening after being struck by a freight train on the BNSF tracks west of the Central Avenue pedestrian crossing. Police responded after the 7:46 p.m. incident found the...

The statuette was allegedly stolen during the Governors Ball after party

Catalonia's parliament will vote next week on whether to elect a jailed separatist leader as the region's new president, as part of an ongoing effort to gain independence from Spain. …

British media say a former Russian spy is in critical condition after coming into contact with an "unknown substance."

Trump mentioned North Korea on Saturday said, "They called up a couple of days ago and said, 'We would like to talk.'"

Despite politicians in his own party, like House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), calling on him to ditch his plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, President Trump on Monday said he's "not backing down." Last week, Tr...

Observers wondering why the mayor's wife has had a role in appointing top City Hall staffers are sexist, Mayor de Blasio insisted Monday.

A Lake County Sheriff's Office corrections officer pleaded not guilty Monday to misdemeanor battery charges for allegedly inappropriately touching a food worker at the Lake County jail in Waukegan. Darin Chansky, 49, of ...

A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper's conduct was reviewed after a lawsuit accused him of groping a woman he pulled over twice within three hours.        

The woman found unconscious on a shopping center bench next to a former Russian double agent is his daughter, a source told CNN on Tuesday.

Why does it feel so much like 2016?

The Federal Communications Commission voted in December to gut U.S. rules that meant to prevent broadband companies from exercising more control over what people watch and see on the internet

Families of the Florida high school victims called on the state to pass a bill

A former communist-era police officer in the Czech Republic has resigned as chairman of a parliamentary committee on law enforcement following massive protests across the country. Zdenek Ondracek was elected …

"Nothing was around," Hawking told astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show StarTalk.        

Though there are now hundreds of buildings across the country that stand over 500 feet tall, each one is a marvel of modern engineering.        

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will sell his Virginia home to pay the legal fees that have accrued as a result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, ABC News reports. Flynn pleaded gui...

President Donald Trump rebuffed claims Tuesday that his White House is in chaos amid reports of high-profile departures and discord within the top ranks of the West Wing.

Egyptian officials say six people have been arrested for their involvement in a play seen as insulting to security forces. They said Tuesday that the playwright, director and officials of …

As every good beachcomber knows, it pays to have sharp eyes. When scanning the sand dunes of Wedge Island, Perth, off the coast of Australia, Tonya Illman noticed an old gin bottle -- which turned out to contain the worl...

Polish prosecutors have filed fraud charges against the former leader of an anti-government organization who led a string of street protests starting in 2015. Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Mateusz Kijowski, …

A Turkish extradition request for the second of nine Turkish citizens who were arrested on terror charges in Athens days before a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was rejected by a Greek court Tuesday.