Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Garry F. McCarthy, the superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, amid widespread criticism over how authorities responded to a white police officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald last year.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said the United States will send “a specialized expeditionary targeting force” to help Iraqi troops and to intensify direct action against the militants there.
Though known to many Americans as a quiet hero of the civil rights movement, Parks was a radical active in the Black Power movement, according to a professor and biographer.
The State Department posted 7,800 pages, but 328 e-mails were withheld because they are now classified.
David Wayne Nelson arrested after the bodies of Beverly and Greg Giannonatti were found. They had disappeared after coming into possession of a bar of gold worth nearly half a million dollars.
The president spent more than a year laying the groundwork for the U.N. summit. But if the plans set forth in Paris are to be part of his legacy, they must expand later, experts say.
“My conduct is inexcusable,” said the Silver Spring native, who admitted to using drug proceeds to finance his popular upscale nightspot Society Restaurant and Lounge.
The theory, the author writes, was that she could return to work without leaving her 7-week-old.
A poll that replicated questions posed in 1986 showed that increased pessimism was most pronounced among people who have not earned a college degree.
Documents from a Senate inquiry show that Gilead Sciences executives knew the public would be outraged by the price of a 12-week hepatitis C treatment.
The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office of Refugee Resettlement warned that states risk losing all resettlement funding if they try to pick and choose which people to let in.
The technology adviser was killed in September when he was struck by a car during a charity bike race.
The lead author hopes the findings will help eliminate assumptions about gender differences.
They might clamor for the latest "Star Wars" items, but thoughtful gifts can lead to enriching experiences and valuable family time.