Facing up to 60 years for killing her 5-year-old, mom tells court: 'I miss him and there's nothing I wouldn't do to bring him back'

CHICAGO - Near the top of a small hill in a Palatine cemetery rests the remains of a 5-year-old boy buried in Superman pajamas and in a casket handmade and blessed by Trappist monks. Etched in the flat marker is the image of a praying angel and the words, "Loving Brother Andrew Freund." The nickname "AJ" appears in the center of a Superman emblem on the top right side. There is no mention on ...

Cuomo slams Trump over coronavirus response, says CDC report shows 'terrible failing on behalf of the federal government'

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, citing a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, took President Donald Trump to task Thursday over the federal coronavirus response. The governor touted the report because it backs his argument that the virus came to New York through Europe, not China. "It will be a double-barreled shotgun of incompetence," Cuomo told ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme court justice will not retire after cancer diagnosis

The court's most senior liberal justice has a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Minister: Iraq to face severe shortages as river flows drop

Iraq's minister of water resources says his country will face severe water shortages if agreements are not forged with neighboring Turkey over Ankara's irrigation and dam projects that have decreased river inflows to Iraq's parched plains. Descending from the mountains of southeast Turkey and coursing through Syria and then Iraq before emptying out in the Persian Gulf, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are Iraq's main water source and essential to for agriculture.

Three white men charged in killing of Black jogger in Georgia plead not guilty

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was killed on Feb. 23 just outside the coastal town of Brunswick, became a touchstone in cross-country protests over racial and social justice in the United States. A former law enforcement officer, Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34, are charged with murder and aggravated assault. Police say Gregory McMichael saw Arbery jogging through his neighborhood outside of Brunswick and believed he looked like a burglary suspect.

Anthony Fauci said New York is an example of how to 'correctly' confront soaring coronavirus cases

New York City is slated to enter Phase 4 of its reopening on July 20, three months after the city counted a peak of 10,000 new cases per day.

India-Pakistan fighting in Kashmir kills 3, wounds 2