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Rob Reiner ’s 32-year-old son Nick Reiner has been taken into custody after the deaths of the director-writer and his wife Michele, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Monday.
Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul who has come to symbolize defiance to Beijing, would devote himself to God and his family rather than political activism if he were released, his daughter said Monday after he was convicted in a national security case.
The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack in Syria that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group were identified Monday and remembered as dedicated soldiers.
The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Monday that it would allow the U.S. military to access its airports in coming weeks as tensions build between the United States and Venezuela.
Officials ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs Monday after a levee failed following a week of heavy rains.
The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-metre (82-foot) Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus and dancers in traditional costumes from Italy’s northernmost South Tyrol province performed.
Russia has indicated it’s open to Ukraine joining the European Union as part of a potential peace deal to end the war, U.S. officials said Monday.
Federal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple U.S. companies on New Year’s Eve in Southern California, announcing the arrests of members of an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group.
Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died. He was 78.
Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest after determining the evidence pointed in a different direction.
Western and Arab diplomats toured an area along Lebanon’s border with Israel Monday where Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers have been working for months to end the armed presence of the militant Hezbollah group.
Berlin prosecutors said Monday they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado fractured a vertebra while fleeing Venezuela on a small boat last week to receive the award in Oslo, a spokesperson for the opposition leader said on Monday, confirming a Norwegian media report.
President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war,” the head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency said Monday.
Brian Walshe was found guilty Monday of killing his wife, whose body has never been found after she disappeared from their Massachusetts home on New Year’s Day nearly three years ago.
Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker Jose Antonio Kast secured a stunning victory in the presidential election Sunday, defeating the candidate of the centre-left governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy.
