PHOENIX (AP) — Paz Lopez was set to spend Mother’s Day behind bars. The 42-year-old mother of six had been locked up in a Phoenix jail for the past month on forgery and other charges. She couldn’t post her $2,050 bail. But on Thursday night she walked out and into a car waiting to give […]

Several contributors to a $22 million fund begun by an Air Force veteran to build sections of President Donald Trump’s border wall are hitting social media with concerns about a lack of progress. “I’ve been away for FIVE months,” one person tweeted last month. “When’s the groundbreaking? Others have posted messages wondering why there have […]

A coyote pup found scared and alone in the road in Revere, Massachusetts, has a new chance at life thanks to a group of caring humans. Massachusetts State Police troopers received a call about a “wounded dog in the road” on the night of May 5, according to a Facebook post from the department. But […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the political will to fight climate change seems to be fading at the same time as things are getting worse for those feeling the effects. Guterres made the comments after arriving in New Zealand, where he spoke to media alongside Prime Minister Jacinda […]

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico ― It looks like something out a brochure advertising what renewable energy could offer a remote, storm-ravaged island. Electrical lines still hang perilously from poles across the street, but inside the mint-green, one-story Ciudad Dorada senior center, fans blow cool air and refrigerators stocked with insulin and other medicines run cold even […]

Mila was in the prime of her Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Southern California in November 2014 when she says an adjunct professor sexually assaulted her. The assault resulted in an unwanted pregnancy, which she terminated. “My assailant harassed me while I faced that abortion,” she said. Six weeks later, Mila […]

CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has warned that America’s constitutional system “may simply be incapable of responding” to the threat posed to it by President Donald Trump. “Our constitutional system never contemplated a President like Donald Trump,” Toobin wrote in an opinion piece published by The New Yorker, where he is also a staff […]

Warning: spoilers for “Game of Thrones” below.  The blame game for who was responsible for that rogue cup in “Game of Thrones” continues. But Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in HBO’s epic fantasy drama, staunchly denied it was down to her on Friday’s broadcast of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” The errant cup […]

Party City announced it will permanently shutter 45 of its stores amid a helium shortage that had literally deflated its balloon sales, although the company does not blame the closures on that sinking supply.  The company, which runs roughly 870 locations, said Thursday that the closures will take place throughout the rest of 2019. However, […]

President Donald Trump is going full steam ahead with a plan he mentioned months ago to take over the traditional July 4th festivities on the National Mall, which now likely will feature a speech by him, The Washington Post reported. The takeover threatens to turn a nonpartisan national celebration on public land into a Trump campaign […]