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A piece of torn notebook paper helped free a Louisiana woman who was held against her will in a trailer, police said.

Bono is going to celebrate being grouped with the Women of the Year -- with or without you.

The FBI is in a political hole -- and can't seem to stop digging.

Pope Francis' resounding no to women becoming priests may come as a surprise considering the popular narrative of him as a reformer who seeks to bring change to the Roman Catholic Church.

They have two of the most recognizable names in America, but neither of them is running for president.

The traditional model of "he said, she said" journalism, in which news reports simply put both sides of a story against one another, was thrown out the window in favor of a more aggressive journalism that sought to prioritize accuracy over balance.

The FBI has been conducting multiple investigations of alleged connections between Russia and Donald Trump, his presidential campaign or its backers. But none so far has yielded proof of criminal connections between the parties.

There's an entire chapter in Amelia Earhart's life that history ignores, says new research: The legendary American pilot died as a castaway, not in a plane crash.

Looking out into an African-American congregation this weekend at the New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Hillary Clinton preached about God's commandment to love each other, the resilience of her late mother, the need to tackle systemic racism and help parents left grieving by violence.

In early October, a few pages of Donald Trump's state tax returns mysteriously mailed to The New York Times revealed he had claimed a $916 million loss -- well over a billion in today's dollars -- which he could use to avoid taxes for nearly two decades.

Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's longtime -- and arguably closest -- aide, has stepped off the campaign trail in the wake of the FBI's announcement last week that it was investigating thousands of emails found on a laptop shared by her and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner.

She's not a victim. She's a survivor.

A lollipop after a morning doctor visit. A cupcake for a classmate's birthday with lunch. A bag of cookies, gummies or a few little doughuts before after-school activities begin.

What's one more day of suffering? Both the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians' fan bases have waited so long already.

A spoof video circulating on Egyptian social media neatly illustrates the effect of the nation's ongoing sugar crisis.

At least 18 people -- including a child -- were killed Wednesday after a speedboat capsized off the coast of Indonesia, authorities said.

In the midst of America's alarming heroin epidemic, the drug's damage can best be seen in the faces of children pictured -- like the Ohio boy buckled up in a car behind his two overdosed caretakers -- and those just outside the frame.

A baby who will never know his mother now rocks to sleep most nights to the sound of her voice, thanks to the kindness of strangers on the Internet.

"They told us, 'You are going to have to walk to Hammam al Alil,'" says Asa'ad. "We knew that it would be long and we took blankets and bread."

The chief of the Philippine National Police says his country will look elsewhere if it can't buy rifles from the United States.