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Jury selection started Tuesday in the onetime movie mogul's latest retrial, where jurors will weigh whether he raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel in 2013.

Lena Dunham rapidly rose to fame more than a decade ago as the comedic force behind HBO's breakout hit, 'Girls.' In a new memoir, Dunham candidly, hilariously, and sometimes painfully explores how she balanced celebrity with her struggles with ...

Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

A federal judge must end his contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year, a divided appeals court panel ruled.

A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest by federal officers of a Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.

The 30-second message features a variety of voters, among them a busy farmer and a flight attendant, explaining why they cast their ballots by mail.

An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year's midair collision of a jet with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital is up for a vote Tuesday evening in the House, but key senators and the families of the 67 victims ...

In our news wrap Monday, a judge dismissed President Trump's defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal for a story on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration says it will allow Stonewall National Monument . ...

The media industry has been navigating substantial turmoil in recent years. On our PBS news podcast, "Settle In," Geoff Bennett explored this upheaval with Evan Shapiro. He's an award-winning producer who now writes about the industry for his ...

President Donald Trump refused to apologize to Pope Leo XIV on Monday after criticizing the pontiff for his opposition to the war in Iran -- and he sought to explain away a now-deleted social media post depicting himself as Jesus by saying he had ...