A gunman who killed five fellow workers at an Illinois factory on Friday had just been terminated, and the plant manager and a human resources official were among his victims, authorities said on Saturday.

A gunman opened fire at an Illinois factory just after receiving notice of termination from his job there on Friday, killing five fellow workers and wounding five policemen before he was slain by police, authorities said.

Former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood after he was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Vatican said on Saturday.

Suspects arrested in connection with an alleged racist and homophobic assault on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago were released on Friday, police said.

President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

California and New York suggested on Friday they would take legal action against President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration aimed at freeing up billions of dollars in funds to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

When Gary Martin came to work at the Henry Pratt valve manufacturing plant in Aurora, Illinois, on Friday, he was told he was being terminated from his job. Shortly thereafter, Martin pulled out his Smith & Wesson revolver and opened fire.

Democratic lawmakers, states and others mulling legal challenges to President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to obtain funds to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall face an uphill and probably losing battle in a showdown likely to be decided by the conservative-majority Supreme Court, legal experts said.

A U.S. Appeals Court ruled on Friday that members of Puerto Rico's federally created oversight board were unconstitutionally appointed but declined to dismiss the bankruptcy cases the board filed for the U.S. commonwealth.

The special master overseeing a U.S. government fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Friday said future awards will be significantly reduced, typically by at least 50 percent, because the fund is running short of money.

California and New York vow to challenge his plan to bypass Congress and build the wall.

A judge has told officials to stop feeding hunger striking migrants in El Paso through nasal tubes.

US special counsel says Paul Manafort should be jailed for 19-24 years after breaching a plea deal.

Police said the gunman, who was shot dead, was an employee who had reportedly just been fired.

The star, whose new single is a plea for gun reform, wants to see more efforts to represent hip hop at the Grammys.

Colin Kaepernick and former team-mate Eric Reid reach settlements with the NFL over 'collusion' cases against team owners.

Police release without charge two men arrested in connection with the alleged attack on the actor.

The US general leading the fight against the Islamic State group has warned against withdrawing troops.

Canadian police are investigating who took 30,000 of litres of iceberg water from the distiller.

US citizens Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez were detained in Montana last May for speaking Spanish.

The move by Pope Francis, announced by the Holy See on Saturday, was the first time a cardinal in the United States has been removed from the priesthood.

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick was removed from ministry last month for sexually abusing an altar boy. But for decades, the church overlooked his harassment of adult seminarians.

The disclosure is the latest to come from the Catholic Church in recent months, and is one of the largest from an individual diocese.

It remains to be seen whether Senate Republicans will act collectively to try to stop the president or how far into uncharted territory they are willing to follow him.

President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a border wall is expected to attract legal challenges. What are the legal vulnerabilities and who might raise them?

President Trump has been telling audiences that President Barack Obama had been on the verge of war, a situation that Mr. Obama’s former aides say is entirely fiction.

Monica Witt’s defection to Iran appears to have been part of a radicalization that began in military service and accelerated in graduate school.

The clash has consequences beyond New York, going to the heart of a national debate likely to dominate the 2020 election: What is the best way to spread prosperity?

Candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were quick to praise New Yorkers who rebelled at the idea of giving tax breaks to a huge corporation.

The company, long accustomed to deferential treatment from localities, badly misjudged how it would be received in the city, according to dozens of interviews.

Gold and silver medal-winning gymnast Laurie Hernandez has confirmed she is training again, hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Cuba's leader and set up a Communist regime.

Actor Elizabeth Olsen turns 30 and tennis player John McEnroe turns 60, among the famous birthdays for Feb. 16.

Geologists have developed a method to track tremors using water level measurements recorded by tide gauges.

Ants living in Africa's acacia trees can tell the difference between the vibrational patterns made by wind and those made by a munching herbivore.

Glyphosate a chemical in the popular weedkiller Roundup, may elevate cancer risk in people, according to a new study.

An Australian family called for help from snake catchers when they discovered a 90-pound python curled up in their laundry room.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said two Florida men are facing charges after they were found to be transporting more than 4 pounds of cocaine disguised as Lunchables.

Security cameras at a Chinese train station were recording when a young girl gave her father the slip and crawled through an X-ray machine.

Most hip replacements last well after the surgery was performed, with 90 percent lasting 15 years and 70 percent last 20 years, according to a new study.

At one particularly crowd-pleasing point during Panic! at the Disco’s show Friday at the Forum, Brendon Urie played the group’s cover of one of the “Greatest Showman” songs, from the recent tribute album devoted to that film, and it’s not hard to see why he would gravitate to the musical. Urie’s so much of a […]

“Alita: Battle Angel” is holding a slim lead ahead of “Lego Movie 2’s” second frame with an estimated four-day take of $29.1 million from 3,790 North American locations. “Lego Movie 2: The Second Part,” meanwhile, is heading for about $25 million for a domestic tally of around $66 million. The two films lead the pack […]

Thursday night’s New York premiere of the Matt Smith-led biopic “Mapplethorpe” took place at Cinépolis Chelsea, just steps from the Chelsea Hotel where the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe once lived — but director Ondi Timoner had no sense of that legacy when she first encountered him in a very different context. “When I was ten […]

The most lauded of titles on this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, UniFrance’s online showcase featured by over 50 OTT services around the world, may not be a film but a drama series. With four seasons aired, and a milestone in world sales on a French TV show, slow-boiling espionage series ‘Le Bureau des légendes’ (“The Bureau”) is […]

Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor best known for dramatizing Adolf Hitler’s final days in 2004’s “Downfall,” has died. He was 77. Ganz died at his home in Zurich on Friday, his representatives told media outlets. The cause of death was reportedly colon cancer. In addition to delivering one of the definitive cinematic portrayals of Hitler, […]

Alibaba has purchased an 8% stake in the Chinese online video platform Bilibili, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Bilibili is one of China’s top video streaming and entertainment platforms, with about 92 million monthly active users and 450 million page-views per day. Founded in 2009, it was listed on the NASDAQ last March. Alibaba’s […]

Stephen K. Bannon drinks Kombucha (who knew?), the fermented tea beverage for health fanatics that tastes like…well, if they ever invented a soft drink called Germs, that’s what Kombucha tastes like. In “The Brink,” Alison Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall, rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-a-white-nationalist documentary, Bannon explains that he likes Kombucha because it g […]

Walt Disney Archives founder Dave Smith, the historian who spent 40 years cataloging and preserving the company’s legacy of entertainment and innovation, died Friday in Burbank, Calif. He was 78. Smith served as Disney’s chief archivist from 1970 to 2010. He was named a Disney Legend in 2007 and served as a consultant to the […]

Prolific Emmy-nominated television writer Christopher Edwin Knopf, former president of the Writers Guild of America West, died in his sleep of congestive heart failure on Feb. 13. He was 91. Knopf was born in New York and attended UCLA, leaving during his senior year to join the Air Force during World War II. He finished […]

After two days of questioning, the Chicago Police Department announced Friday evening that it has released two suspects in the Jussie Smollett case without filing charges. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that detectives had developed new information in the case. Police no longer consider the men to be suspects. “Due to new evidence as a […]

Two plow drivers clearing streets were threatened during the week by people infuriated when their driveways ended up blocked with mounds of snow in the Spokane, Washington, area.

While rivers are already rising, a new storm will further heighten the risk for flooding and severe weather across the lower Mississippi and Tennessee valleys around the middle of the upcoming week.

Below-normal temperatures will accompany bouts of rain and snow across the western United States through next week.

One person died after a major pileup on Interstate 70 just east of Kansas City on Friday afternoon.

Experts explain why polar bears are invading a Russian town, and whether they are there to stay.

Two storms with snow, ice and rain will affect many areas from the Midwest to the northeastern United States through the middle of next week.

Winter's brutal weather is taking its toll on people.

Tens of thousands of people gather almost every weekend to watch their favorite NASCAR driver try to race their way to victory lane, but weather can play a major role in the outcome of a race.

A storm that gathered over the central United States on Friday is streaking eastward into the mid-Atlantic through Saturday.

Dr. Warren Morton Washington was one of the first developers of groundbreaking atmospheric computer models, which have been key to helping scientists understand climate change.