Paras Griffin/Getty Images(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) -- The Illinois Supreme Court has thrown out former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's conviction for lying about a 2019 hate crime.Smollett was found guilty in 2021 for faking a racist and homophobic at...

Diego Cervo/EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- E-cigarettes in kid-friendly flavors are driving retail sales and contain more addictive nicotine than ever, according to a new report from the nonprofit CDC Foundation and advocacy group Truth Init...

Roy Rochlin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The woman who accused Pete Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017 told police at the time that he took her phone and blocked her from leaving his hotel room on the night of the incident, according to a 22-page police re...

Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images(SEATTLE) -- Two people were killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hammered the Pacific Northwest.In Bellevue, a tree fell into a home, hitting and killing a woman while she was in the shower ...

Moscow, Idaho (Shunyu Fan/Getty Images)(LOS ANGELES) - The judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger's murder case has ruled the death penalty will remain on the table as the case moves forward, rejecting a request from Kohberger's defense attorneys.In June 202...

Hartford Police Department(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- Police are searching for a man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old mother and her 4-month-old son while they were sitting in their car in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday, in what appears to be a dr...

Blount County Sheriff's Office(KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) -- A convicted Jan. 6 rioter has now been found guilty of plotting to murder FBI agents who were investigating the Capitol insurrection.Edward Kelley, 35, was convicted Wednesday in the federal case agai...

Adam Glanzman/Getty Images(MASSACHUSETTS) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that students with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend the Cambridge institution tuition-free starting next fall.The bulk of Ame...

Libby March/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) -- Four University of Rochester students were arrested and another is under investigation for allegedly being involved with the antisemitic "Wanted" posters found on campus.The posters w...

CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States -- and some of his cabinet ap...