Jury selection in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial concluded Friday after an arduous two-week process, setting the stage for testimony to begin in the next week.

The country's top immigration official says New York City's so-called sanctuary policies are to blame for the sexual assault and killing this month of a 92-year-old woman in Queens.

Authorities say a plane has slid off the taxiway at Kansas City International Airport due to icy conditions as a sprawling winter storm hits large sections of the Midwest and beyond.

Police say the driver of a pickup truck had a “medical emergency” before slamming into an Illinois Starbucks.

Ohio State University says the investigation and related lawsuits about alleged sexual abuse decades ago by a team doctor have cost nearly $10 million so far.

The 2020 Census will begin next week in rural Alaska.

The chairman and ranking Republican on a House Armed Services subcommittee have paid a visit to Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works in Maine.

A gun-rights group wants the Virginia Supreme Court to block a ban on firearms at their Monday rally at the state Capitol.

A judge must decide the fate of former U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins after his lawyers and prosecutors disagreed over how he should be punished for conspiring in an insider trading scheme.

Four teachers from a Los Angeles-area school sued Delta Air Lines, saying they were exposed to jet fuel when a plane with engine trouble dumped its fuel over a densely populated area while making an emergency return to the airport.

U.S. health officials have announced they will begin screening airline passengers from central China for a new virus that is making people sick.

The U.S. Navy is expected to honor a World War II hero when a new aircraft carrier is named for Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller.

Four people were killed and one injured in a shooting in a Salt Lake City suburb.

A 102-year-old man who is Indiana's oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job, saying that “your body tells you when it's time to go.

Authorities say an investigation into reports of large drones flying in groups after dark since November has confirmed nothing unusual or criminal.

Two U.S. agencies say the decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record.

Two NASA astronauts have ventured out on a second all-female spacewalk to finish upgrading the International Space Station's power grid.

Oprah Winfrey says Russell Simmons attempted to pressure her about her involvement with a documentary in which several women detail sexual abuse allegations against the rap mogul, but his efforts were not what prompted her to leave the project.

A man convicted of killing a family of four with a sledgehammer and burying their bodies in the California desert is set to learn his fate.

Lawyers for a transgender woman from El Salvador who won her release from immigration detention say she has been arrested and taken back to the same New Mexico facility because the U.S. government is appealing a judge's decision.

Authorities say one person has died and one person is seriously injured after an avalanche at a Northern California ski resort.

Royal Caribbean Cruises says an Indiana man charged with negligent homicide in his young granddaughter’s fatal fall from a cruise ship window leaned out of that window for several seconds before he lifted the child up to it and she fell.

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by 21 young people who claimed the U.S. government's climate policy harms them and jeopardizes their future.

A former commander of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay has been convicted of interfering with an investigation into the death of a civilian with whom the commander had fought and argued over his alleged affair with the man's wife.

The cast of potential jurors in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial has narrowed again.

As former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume seeks to regain a congressional seat he once held, a newspaper is reporting on records that show he left the civil rights group amid concerns about sexual harassment and other issues.

FBI agents have arrested a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group.

Investigators stymied by a nine-year mystery following the discovery of 11 sets of human remains strewn along a suburban New York beach highway revealed a previously unreleased photograph Thursday of evidence found at one of the crime scenes.

Authorities in Iowa had to round up more than 1,700 piglets after a semi-trailer overturned on a freeway just north of Des Moines.

Police say a pickup truck has slammed into an Illinois Starbucks, injuring several people and causing massive damage to the coffee shop.

The man charged in an attack at a suburban New York Hanukkah celebration that left five people wounded has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges.

Gun-rights groups are asking a judge to block the Virginia governor's ban on firearms at a massive pro-gun rally scheduled for next week.

Police say two gunmen fired through the window of a Chicago barbershop, injuring five customers — including three juveniles — who were getting haircuts.

A former Texas nurse suspected in the killing of dozens of children has pleaded guilty to the 1981 death of an 11-month-old.

Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted.

Rural mountain communities outside Seattle where unusually intense winter storms knocked out power for days have seen some relief.

Federal authorities will investigate why an airliner with engine trouble dumped jet fuel over a densely populated area of Southern California while making an emergency return, dousing dozens of schoolchildren in a smelly vapor.

A church leader says a review commissioned by the Archdiocese of Anchorage found credible evidence of sexual misconduct by 14 people who served in the archdiocese.

Democrats know that to defeat President Donald Trump they need to do a better job motivating young voters like University of Wisconsin junior David Pelikan.

Corrections officials in Georgia are set to execute a man convicted of shooting a convenience store clerk to death more than 30 years ago.

A judge overseeing the trial to examine allegations of unsafe and freezing conditions in some Border Patrol facilities in Arizona gave a brief synopsis Thursday of his last-minute inspection at Tucson station.

A federal judge has ordered the former sheriff of Los Angeles County to report to prison by Feb. 5 to begin serving a prison sentence for his corruption conviction.

Leaders in a Mississippi county have approved a plan to drain a lake where officials say a dam could fail after days of heavy rain.

A stepdaughter of a woman who survived six days in her snowbound SUV in Northern California say she suffers from dementia.

A United Airlines jetliner headed for Los Angeles returned to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport after flames were seen near a wing.

The U.S. Navy says no significant environmental harm would come from its proposed tripling of the size of a Nevada bombing training range opposed by neighboring tribes and conservationists.

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from enforcing a presidential executive order allowing state and local government officials to reject refugees from resettling in their jurisdictions.

Prosecutors say a 16-year-old student mistakenly shot his friend in their Houston-area high school’s ROTC room before fleeing the building.

A Texas inmate has been executed for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage alive.

Federal prosecutors say attorney Michael Avenatti was arrested for violating conditions of his bail by committing multiple state and federal crimes while awaiting trial.