�Desperate Housewives� star Felicity Huffman � aka prisoner No. 77806-112 � reported Tuesday to a federal prison in California to serve a two-week sentence in a college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of wealthy mothers and fathers trying to get their children into elite schools. Huffman�s husband, actor William H. Macy, dropped her off at […]

The furor Tuesday over the killing of a black woman by a white Fort Worth officer became increasingly about a gun pointed at a bedroom window. But the police chief

European Union officials were hoping Tuesday that � after more than three years of false starts and sudden reversals � a Brexit deal with Britain might be sketched out within hours. The bloc said that it might be possible to strike a divorce deal by Thursday�s EU leaders� summit, which comes just two weeks before […]

Authorities say they are proceeding with the extradition of a former Lithuanian judge and parliamentarian jailed in Chicago after the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal. A Tuesday court

The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year � and it may keep getting more expensive, according to a study released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries. The biggest driver of the cost over the four-year period is unrealized lifetime earnings of those who died from the drugs, followed […]

When Syria�s Kurdish fighters, America�s longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash. But in fact, the move had been in the works for more than a year. Fearing U.S. abandonment, the […]

Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government forces and Turkish troops. At the same time, tensions grew within NATO as Turkey defied growing condemnation of its invasion from its Western allies. Now in its seventh day, Turkey�s offensive […]

A seven-story building collapsed Tuesday in an upscale part of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, killing one person and leaving others trapped with some communicating with family members by cellphone

Most of the women in Samuel Little�s hand-drawn portraits seem to be frowning. Their hair is short and curly or long and straight. They stare straight ahead or slightly off to the side. Some wear lipstick and jewelry. Little, whom the FBI identified this month as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, produced […]

A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor�s call about an open front door �didn�t have time to perceive a threat� before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman�s family said. �You didn�t hear the officer shout, �Gun, gun, gun,�� attorney Lee Merritt said […]

A U.S. ambassador is expected to tell Congress that his text message reassuring another envoy that there was no quid pro quo in their interactions with Ukraine was based solely on what President Donald Trump told him, according to a person familiar with his upcoming testimony in the impeachment probe. Gordon Sondland, Trump�s hand-picked ambassador […]