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Federal officials reportedly have launched a new investigation into allegations of corruption at Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable organization.

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A crackdown is unlikely to be popular with the solid majority — 64 percent — of Americans who support pot legalization. 

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A Chicago man is being warned by city officials to stop offering "slumber parties" at his home to homeless people or else his house will be condemned. Greg Schiller told NBC 5 he began opening his basement up to the homeless last month during brutally cold weather. "While we appreciate those who volunteer to provide additional resources in the community, Mr. Schiller's house does not comply with codes and regulations that guard against potential dangers such as carbon monoxide poisoning, inadequate light and ventilation, and insufficient exits in the event of a fire," Molly Center, a city spokesperson, said.

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With a so-called bomb cyclone bearing down on the eastern part of the U.S. on Thursday, many people woke up to the realization that there is a lot of snow where there wasn’t any the night before.

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A man was reportedly kidnapped and forced to marry a woman at gunpoint in India.

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The tax bill’s message from Republican lawmakers to Democratic-voting states seems to be: “You’re not our people, so go get bent.”

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The quake hit early on Thursday morning.

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TROY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on two men accused of killing two women and two children in a basement apartment (all times local):

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Burger chain In-N-Out wants its customers’ buns to be warm, apparently.

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Comparing the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran to demonstrations in the U.S. like Black Lives Matter, actress and activist Yara Shahidi is urging Americans to consider just how interconnected the situation in Iran is to the U.S. experience.

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No winning tickets were sold for the $460 million drawing

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Despite the retail industry taking a major beating this year with multiple big-name stores across the country shuttering locations, there was one retailer that held on strong: Walmart.

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Republican David Yancey on Thursday won the tied election for Virginia’s 94th House of Delegates district when state officials picked his name out of a bowl.

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Two pilots for an Indian airline have been suspended after starting a fight and abandoning the cockpit in the middle of a flight. The Jet Airways flight from London to Mumbai was left unmanned on New Year’s Day when the pilots erupted in an argument

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The 45-year-old Mexican national, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, has been held behind bars since his arrest in the July 2015 shooting death of Kate Steinle, and was fully credited for the three-year sentence, a spokesman for the San Francisco district attorney's office said. The San Francisco Sheriff's Department handed Garcia Zarate over to U.S. Marshals on Friday on warrants stemming from federal gun charged related to the Steinle incident, sheriff's department spokeswoman Nancy Crowley said.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Long-term and systemic failures" by California dam managers and regulators to recognize inherent construction and design flaws at the tallest U.S. dam caused last year's near-disaster there, an independent panel of dam safety experts said Friday, calling it a wake-up call for dam operators around the country.

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WASHINGTON —The warning signs were there, flaring up from Nicholas Giampa’s pseudonymous Twitter feed for over a year.

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French President Emmanuel Macron plans to introduce legislation that will crack down on so-called “fake news” during French election campaigns, calling the spread of such misinformation a threat to democracy.

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Reports say more than 260 were injured

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