LOS ANGELES — The mother of the Texas teenager known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident is deported to the U.S., but her son likely won't return to the U.S. anytime soon because a Mexican judge has stayed his deportation.
ELKINS PARK, Pennsylvania — Bill Cosby readies for the first criminal case brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image.
WASHINGTON — The State Department will be delivering a New Year's Eve batch of more emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, bringing 2015 to a close for the Democratic presidential front-runner. Here's some questions and answers about Clinton's email.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seeks to assail Democrat Hillary Clinton by calling her husband, former President Bill Clinton, "one of the great abusers of the world."
RIVERSIDE, California — A friend of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre that killed 14 people is indicted on charges that include conspiring in a pair of previous planned attacks and making false statements when he bought the guns used in this month's shootings, authorities say.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's governor announces that the U.S. territory will meet $594 million in bond payments due next week but will still default on $37 million in interest.
LIMA, Peru — Ritual fighting on Christmas Day to resolve disputes is an old tradition in Peru's highlands province of Chumbivilcas and recently it has spread to the capital.
NEW YORK — For decades, children visiting New York City savored one stop above all: a trip to the kind of toy store that existed only in their imagination. Now they'll have to keep dreaming. The massive Toys R Us superstore in Times Square had its last shopping day.
UNDATED — When she was 16, Rana Abdelhamid was accosted on the streets of New York by a man who tried to pull off the head scarf she wears as a symbol of her commitment to her Muslim faith. Rather than withdraw, as she'd seen other Muslim women do, she turned her anger into a program that is now working with young Muslim women to teach them self-defense while encouraging them to become leaders and role models for others in their communities.