Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was convicted Thursday on five of six charges he staged an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it.
A cargo truck jammed with what appeared to be Central American migrants rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over on a highway in southern Mexico on Thursday, killing at least 49 people and injuring nearly five dozen others.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday brushed aside complaints about prosecutors' move to close one of the country's most prominent human rights groups, claiming that it listed Nazi collaborators among the victims of Soviet-era repression.
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Thursday against an effort by former president Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
A federal jury in Arkansas has convicted Josh Duggar, the eldest son on the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, of downloading and possessing child pornography
Serious concerns are being raised about Facebook’s ability to curb the spread of hate speech, inflammatory language and intentional disinformation on its site in India, home to the largest number of Facebook users in the world.
While the omicron variant is surging in the U.K., the country's vaccine booster program is going well. But public confidence in the government has been shaken by a scandal over a Christmas party at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's residence last December, when the country was supposed to be under strict lockdown.
China on Thursday dismissed the decision by Canada and the United Kingdom to join Washington's diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games as a "farce."
The World Health Organization expressed concerns Thursday that rich countries spooked by the emergence of the omicron variant could step up the hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines and strain global supplies again, complicating efforts to stamp out the pandemic.
Starbucks Corp. baristas waging a union campaign in Buffalo, N. Y., say they are organizing in part to have more of a say in the workload created by the company's mobile app, which has left them struggling to keep up with surges in orders.
Robbie Shakespeare, the Jamaican bass guitarist best known as half of the reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie, died on Wednesday, Jamaica's culture minister said. He was 68.
