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A ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court has cleared the way for families of Sandy Hook victims to sue the makers of the gun used in the infamous 2012 shooting. By a narrow 4-3 decision, the court re...

Two black boxes from Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash have been recovered and are currently being analyzed in France. The boxes contain flight information as well as voice recordings from the c...

Did you have trouble logging on to Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday? Now we know the reason why. On Thursday afternoon, Facebook posted that a ‘server configuration change’ led to the ou...

March 14th, aka 3.14, is known as ‘Pi Day’. And one woman is taking the celebration farther than it’s ever gone before. Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google engineer, just broke the Guinness w...

https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/353/2019/03/14140442/Bill-Lightfoot-Endorsements.mp3 By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for mayor, Lori Lightfoot continues to rack-up endorsements fro...

A Brooklyn cop and her sergeant are in hot water after her body cam caught her performing oral sex on him in a patrol car. The officer, who hasn’t been identified, was reportedly on patrol with ...

The Italian Justice Ministry has ordered an investigation into an appeals court ruling that determined a woman was too ugly to be a credible rape victim. The chain of events began in 2015, when two Pe...

With Facebook and Instagram down worldwide for most of Wednesday, social media users needed somewhere to go. So they headed to Twitter. Lots of them. The hashtag #FacebookDown became the top trending ...

You can now crack a cold one with your dog thanks to a Houston couple. Megan and Steve Long have created a non-alcoholic beer for your canine called Good Boy Dog Beer. The couple came up with the idea...

If you’re planning to jet off to someplace warmer for Spring Break this weekend, be forewarned; you probably should get to the airport extra early. Transportation Security Administration officia...