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NYPD identifies the five victims who were unable to free themselves from copter that plunged into East River

Dozens of passengers said to be on US-Bangla Airlines jet as it crashed after landing in Kathmandu

A senior United Nations official investigating Myanmar's ongoing crackdown against the Rohingya says she is increasingly convinced it may amount to genocide.

Russia's Defense Ministry says it has successfully tested one of the "invincible" missiles that President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month could deliver a warhead at hypersonic speed and pierce US defenses.

Ethiopian soldiers accidentally killed 9 civilians and injured 12 others in a military operation targeting insurgent militants, state media announced Sunday.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will lead a commission tasked with broadly examining ways to protect schools from gun violence, White House says.        

An elementary school teacher in Indiana allegedly turned private baseball lessons into masturbation sessions for a group of young boys, authorities said. Joe Kimerer — a fourth-grade teacher at Amelia Earhart Elementar...

Gentry Beach raised money for the Trump campaign in Texas and was involved in a controversial fundraiser.

The threat was a false alarm and the plane was not shot down

A married lawmaker in Iowa resigned Monday after he was reportedly caught on camera kissing a female lobbyist at a bar. Video obtained by Iowa Starting Line purportedly shows Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix, a Republican...

The Spitzer scandal is arguably the most shocking moment in New York political history.        

A helicopter has crashed in New York City’s East River, with the mayor's office saying at least two are dead and one has been rescued.        

The helicopter crashed near Roosevelt Island around 7pm.

Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates won back only two of four seats in a crucial by-election in the semiautonomous Chinese region, final results showed Monday. The results mean the opposition wasn't …

The country's largest automobile organization is urging state lawmakers to require backseat passengers to wear seat belts.

An adult film star who says she had an affair with President Trump will return $130,000 she got from Mr. Trump's personal lawyer if doing so means she can speak freely, her lawyer said in a letter.

Non-government organizations in Poland have distanced themselves from the right-wing government's policies that have strained Polish-Jewish relations and some say have led to a wave of anti-Semitism.

Pilot has told investigators that passenger gear may have interfered with helicopter operation.

Macedonia is holding a second day of commemorative events to mark the 75th anniversary of the deportation of almost all of the country's Jewish population to a Nazi death camp. …

“All of a sudden the plane shook violently and there was a loud bang afterwards,” passenger Basanta Bohora, who survived the crash, toldthe Kathmandu Post.        

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue oil companies for murder, he said on a Politico podcast episode published Monday. Schwarzenegger likened oil companies to tobacco companies continuing to sell cig...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos can't seem to explain why public school test scores in her native Michigan are among the worst in the U.S.