A jovial Donald Trump greeted the first wave of tourists to the White House since his inauguration Tuesday. Trump emerged from behind a French screen to a throng of cheering tourists — many of them fifth graders from Birmingham, Ala. — who had packed into the East Wing of the… Read More

Authorities have charged a Pennsylvania day care worker with simple assault after a newly installed video camera captured her pushing a child down a flight of steps. Upper Darby police say 52-year-old Sarah Gable of Folcroft was fired soon after the owners of Child Care of the Future saw what… Read More

A British coroner says George Michael died of natural causes as the result of heart disease and a fatty liver. Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, says a post-mortem has found that the singer died of “dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver.” Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition in which… Read More

A homeless saxophonist was a guest of the Pawtucket Police Department in Rhode Island, although he didn’t spend the night in a cell. WJAR-TV reports that officers invited a homeless man named Mark to sleep in the lobby of the police station after finding him dozing at one of the city’s… Read More

The judge who presided over the acquittal of Casey Anthony in a murder trial televised live around the world said Thursday that an accidental killing is the most logical explanation for her 2-year-old daughter’s death. Former Judge Belvin Perry Jr. told The Associated Press that the theory that makes the… Read More

The jury in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has been sent home early after the judge said he needed time to consider a claim that Hernandez’s lawyers have new evidence that could help their client. Attorney Ronald Sullivan told Judge Jeffrey Locke on Monday that a street… Read More

The family of 97-year-old twin sisters who died in freezing temperatures after falling outside one of their homes says the two lived with charm, grace, kindness and style. Police say Jean Young Haley and Martha Young Williams died after they fell outside Haley’s house in Barrington on Friday and became… Read More

Harvard Law School says the family of the late Justice Antonin Scalia will donate his papers to the school’s library. The school announced Monday that the collection would include Scalia’s writings from his tenure on the Supreme Court as well as his time as a federal appeals court judge, law… Read More

Pope Francis has called on the faithful to consult the Bible with the same frequency as they might consult their cellphones for messages. Francis urged a packed St. Peter’s Square following his weekly Angelus blessing Sunday to give the Bible the same place in daily life as cellphones, asking: “What… Read More

A bizarre scene of a group of wild turkeys walking in a circle around a dead cat was caught on video by a Massachusetts man who perhaps best described it: an attempt to give the feline its 10th life. Jonathan Davis came across the fowl play in the Boston suburb… Read More