The Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip announced a unilateral ceasefire on Monday, calling for a halt after two days of intense fighting with Israel, just a week before the country's national elections.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant in Los Angeles says the pilot was careless and negligent by flying in cloudy conditions on the day of a helicopter crash that killed nine people — including her husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
A man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people watching a carnival procession in a small German town, injuring dozens of people — including children — on Monday, police said.
A jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault in New York but did not convict him of the two most serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which could have sent him to prison for life.
NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions and was portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.
