Lawyers for Jussie Smollett says the Chicago Police Department put on an "organized law enforcement spectacle" when its superintendent detailed its findings about the alleged attack on the "Empire" actor.
A U.S. envoy is heading to Colombia as part of a mission to send food and other emergency supplies to neighboring Venezuela amid a deepening political and economic crisis there.
Amandla Stenberg, KiKi Lane, Regina Hall and Jennifer Lewis took the audience from tears to laughter and back again with emotional speeches at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon.
California authorities have released a decades-old photo of a suspect in the 1973 killing of an 11-year-old girl in the hopes of jogging the memory of any potential witnesses.
A man who drove a stolen car into lunchtime crowds and killed six people was sentenced to life imprisonment in what the judge described as one of Australia's worst cases of mass murder.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says he will restart talks with his opponents, seven months after the last round of dialogue broke down and the government unleashed a round of arrests.
Alexander Shuckburgh should be celebrating as an Oscar nominee since he co-wrote "All the Stars" from "Black Panther," but he isn't because academy rules only allow four songwriters to get nods.
A Japanese spacecraft has touched down on a distant asteroid on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system.
Winter storms in the U.S. Southwest brought snow to places it rarely falls, dusting casino marquees on the Las Vegas Strip and sticking at very low elevations on the foothills around Southern California.