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The federal government is accusing Norfolk Southern of "unlawfully polluting" the country's waterways and violating the Clean Water Act in the accident near East Palestine.

The man who inspired the novel and the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, was released late Friday evening from prison after the Rwandan government commuted his sentence.

All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland's application. The action lifted the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country's long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.

Afghan women's rights activists plead with their male classmates to stay home as the Taliban reopen colleges and high schools — for men and boys only.

President Biden marked the 58th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Ala., when Black voting rights activists were beaten by state troopers.

Toblerone is moving some of its production to Slovakia, meaning it can no longer legally call itself "Swiss-made." That branding change will include swapping the iconic peak for a more generic one.

The National Weather Service posted dozens of flood watches, warnings and advisories across the state.

Bob Mondello looks at a new documentary about the economic meltdown and examines where it falls in a spectrum of current fact-based films.

It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

Over the past two years, millions of Americans have flocked to exhibitions of actual human corpses, displays that are part science and part showmanship. The exhibits have been wildly successful -- and profitable for the science museums and other venues that have hosted them. Warning: Some may find the subject matter disturbing.