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A New York City program is helping domestic violence victims with pets to escape, without having to fear for the safety of their beloved animals.

A fire raced through a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, forcing staff to wheel patients into the streets on stretchers or in wheelchairs and killing at least 11 people, many of them elderly. Four firefighters were hospitalized after battling the overnight blaze at Badim Hospital and about 90 patients were transferred to other hospitals, the fire department said. A rope...

The Bronx father accused of leaving his 1-year-old twins to die in a hot car last month — a devastating case his attorney has described as a tragic mistake — left court for the second time in weeks without being indicted Tuesday.

Photo blogger Herb Bardavid, 75, is giving a voice to a population he says is often made to feel invisible — the elderly.

The family of 1-year-old twins who died after being forgotten in a hot car said one last goodbye to the toddlers at a service in Yonkers on Friday.

A judge ruled there is no criminal case at this time against the New York City father accused of leaving his 1-year-old twins in a hot car for eight hours last week, killing both of them, a spokeswoman for the Bronx district attorney’s office said Thursday.

The father charged in the deaths of his 1-year-old twins after he allegedly forgot them in the car while he went to work, is not expected to face upgraded charges, the district attorney said Monday.

The mother of 1-year-old twins who were left in their father’s car while he went to work called their deaths “my absolute worst nightmare,” but spoke out Sunday in defense of her husband.

A father who left his 1-year-old twins in his car while he went to work told investigators “I blanked out, my babies are dead, I killed my babies,” according to the criminal complaint released Saturday.

A father was charged in the deaths of his 1-year-old twins, who he forgot in the car while he went to work, police said Saturday.

The mother of five children who were killed by their father stunned a South Carolina courtroom Tuesday by asking the jury to spare her ex-husband’s life. “He did not show my children any mercy by any means. But my kids loved him and if I’m speaking on behalf of my kids and not myself, that’s what I have to say,”...

A growing number of celebrities who are branching out to host their own podcasts. Notables including Lena Dunham, Chelsea Handler, Alyssa Milano, “Power’s” Omari Hardwick and “Queer Eye” star Karamo Brown are among those who’ve launched their own approximately hour-long, weekly shows this year.

A retired social worker almost became bankrupt in the blink of an eye after leaving a nearly half a million dollar cashiers check at a restaurant.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday made light of his recent controversy about crossing physical boundaries with women, and he signaled in a resolute speech to union activists that’s he’s ready to run for president as a moderate Democrat in party that has been drifting left. Biden, 76, opened his speech to a conference of electrical workers joking that...

Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a surprising $11 million estate to children’s...

A sea of people wearing red and chanting “UTLA” swarmed City Hall as thousands of educators and their supporters marched in Downtown LA on Saturday.

A Brooklyn grandfather has been indicted for allegedly stabbed an ACS translator who was visiting his home because his grandkids were showing up to school looking “messy and unkempt.”

An older brother has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 4-year-old boy, who was thrown from a rooftop in Brooklyn. Wale Aliyu reports.

A judge on Friday refused to recognize the authority of a lawyer who had obtained an elder-abuse restraining order on behalf of Stan Lee, a move that allowed attorneys for Lee’s daughter to reassert their representation of the 95-year-old mastermind behind many of Marvel Comics’ most-recognizable characters. In a tiny Los Angeles courtroom packed with current and former attorneys and...

It has been another epic year for characters Stan Lee helped create, with “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War” earning more than $3 billion combined globally and “Ant-Man and the Wasp” still to open next week, all three featuring the clever cameos beloved by devoted fans of the Marvel Comics mastermind....
But for Lee himself, the past year has been tough...