U.S. & World

Tyreece Gilligan knew her body would change when she got pregnant. She wasn’t prepared however, for the “startling” transformation of her facial features.

Sweden is launching a groundbreaking new law that allows grandparents to care for their grandchild and get paid.

A woman is behind bars after Fort Worth police said she accused restaurant employees of taking her money and held one of them at gunpoint while demanding a refund.

The Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville said late Sunday that Charlotte died after getting a rare reproductive disease. It said in February that Charlotte had gotten pregnant despite not having shared a tank with a male stingray in at least eight years.

“I am shocked as to why they would select such a controversial and divisive individual to receive the award,” Mary Tillman said.

A school board member in Frederick County, Virginia, was sentenced to jail time Monday for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Although the overall unemployment rate is just 4%, there is a growing share of young adults not working — by choice or by force.

Boeing has announced plans to acquire key supplier Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion. It says the move will improve plane quality and safety.

Read faced second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Officer John O’Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police. O’Keefe was found outside a Canton home of another Boston police officer in January 2022.

Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal, according to transcripts released Monday of the 2006 grand jury investigation.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, reading her dissent from the bench, said that “relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom … the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more.”

 Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to Category 5 status as it crosses islands in the southeastern Caribbean.

The Supreme Court asks a lower court to assess whether core aspects of the indictment are official acts and therefore shielded from immunity or are not official acts and subject to prosecution.

Steven van de Velde, who in 2016 was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl, is set to make his Olympic debut competing in beach volleyball for the Netherlands.