Closing arguments at the Harvey Weinstein rape trial are set to begin Thursday, with the jury hearing first from a lawyer who has taken #MeToo movement heat for making provocative mid-trial comments about his case outside of court.
New book by economist Thomas Piketty is an endorsement of the need for ideological change, but the "socialist" label may be frightening people conditioned by years of Cold War rhetoric.
Britain's Big Ben tower at the Houses of Parliament was more badly damaged by German bombs during World War Two than originally thought, experts said on Thursday, as the bill for its restoration soared.
The chair of the Iowa Democratic Party resigned Wednesday after a disastrous caucus process beset by technical glitches led to a days-long delay in reporting the results, inconsistencies in the numbers and no clear winner.
A Texas man pleaded not guilty to 90 federal hate crime charges on Wednesday after he was accused of deliberately targeting people of Mexican heritage in the shooting rampage that killed 22 people at a Walmart store in El Paso last year.
