Mexican officials on Friday made the first high-level arrest in the notorious 2014 disappearance of 43 students, accusing a former top prosecutor of crimes in one of Mexico's worst human rights abuses deemed a state crime.
Vanessa Bryant testified Friday that she was only beginning to grieve the loss of her husband, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter when she learned that sheriff's deputies and firefighters had shot and shared photos of their bodies at the site of their fatal helicopter crash.
Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one week after he was attacked onstage in the western part of the state and hospitalized with stab wounds.
U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Friday asked social media platforms to turn over data regarding an increase in online threats aimed at law enforcement following a search of former president Donald Trump's Florida home and asked how they planned to respond.
Russia's state-owned energy company Gazprom said on Friday that a key pipeline conveying natural gas to Europe will shut down for three days at the end of this month to undergo "routine maintenance."
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve an 11-game unpaid suspension, pay a $5 million US fine and undergo professional evaluation and treatment as part of a settlement with the NFL following accusations of sexual misconduct by two dozen women.
