Like a river diverted, Europe's flow of migrants and refugees on Friday surged through Croatia, which sought to hand them off to angry and resistant Hungary and Slovenia. About 15,000 voyagers were left miserable, bewildered and marooned in the small former Yugoslav republic amid the standoff.
Will Smith has again gushed over his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, this time for her 44th birthday. The "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" alum, 46, took to Facebook to post a vintage image and sentimental greeting to his wife of nearly 17 years, further attempting to prove that all's well in the Smith-o-sphere.
Comedian and actor Bill Engvall, the one-time Blue Collar Comedy troupe member, sold a house in Manhattan Beach for $5.2 million.
Aspiration Partners Inc., an online investment service that lets customers decide how much to pay in fees, has raised $15.5 million.
The Houston Texans are giving up on natural grass at NRG Stadium.
Sen. Ted Cruz, who urged the Senate to "swiftly" confirm John G. Roberts as a Supreme Court justice in 2005, threw Roberts under the campaign bus in Wednesday's Republican presidential debate.
San Francisco has been going through a sea change in the last decade, with moneyed tech workers and development interests threatening to oust the last bastions of its outsider art and music culture.
Jessica Simpson may have been selling jeans on the Home Shopping Network on Thursday, but the singer-turned-designer garnered much attention for her unusual behavior instead.
Many of the tweets supporting 14-year-old Irving, Texas, student Ahmed Mohamed - who was arrested Monday after teachers confused a homemade electronic clock he brought to school for a bomb - were unsparing in their criticism. They blamed the arrest of the Muslim 9th grader with a passion for science...
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He is the man most responsible for a Dodgers team on the verge of booking a third consecutive trip to October.
Illegal immigration is always a sizzling topic on Tony Beam's conservative call-in radio show in this small Bible Belt city.
Scientists might be a step - a teeny tiny step - closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak of your dreams. Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a thin metamaterial that can conform to irregularly shaped objects and render them invisible in certain wavelengths of light.
Ben Carson, second only to Donald Trump in Republican presidential polling, has called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the "ultimate example of regulatory overreach."
Darreus Rogers repeatedly burst off the line of scrimmage and ran precise pass routes. The wide receiver aggressively blocked defenders to help teammates. And he did everything with all-out effort on five consecutive third-quarter plays in USC's victory over Idaho last week.
Nine time zones and more than 4,000 miles from Moscow, the Kamchatka Peninsula seems like one of the least accessible and hospitable places on Earth. No roads link the region to the Russian mainland. Active volcanoes loom over the land. The waters off the coast don't hit 50 degrees, even in summer.
Two weeks after her son was hospitalized with pneumonia, Stacy Dorton received a surprise bill saying she owed $700 that her insurance didn't cover.
The Pakistani Taliban killed 16 people who were praying in a mosque inside an air force compound early Monday, prompting a gun battle that left 13 assailants dead, Pakistani army officials said.
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Sexual assault trial ruling: In the Sept. 17 California section, an article about a lawsuit brought by a student who alleges that the Los Angeles Unified School District was negligent in supervising a teacher who sexually assaulted her carried the headline "Court orders ex-L.A. teacher retried."...
Students have Facebook, and Jesus had the Gospels.
"These Paper Bullets!: A Modish Ripoff of William Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'" lives up to its frisky subtitle and then some.
A good night's sleep might be overrated, as the bleary-eyed Angels can attest after an adrenaline-fueled 11-8 come-from-behind victory over the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on Thursday night.
The spin room is notorious. It is the place at presidential debates where reporters, candidates, their supporters and the celebrities among them collide - sometimes literally. The show in Simi Valley was especially manic thanks to the swollen lineup of candidates and the worldwide media attention...
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