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A police officer speaks to a man walking on New Haven Green, Wednesday, Aug. 15, in New Haven, Conn. More than a 100 people fell ill from suspected drug overdoses linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana laced with fubinaca.

Police Arrest Third Suspect In New Haven Synthetic Marijuana Overdose Case

Over three days, more than 100 people fell ill after smoking a batch of K2 officials say was laced with AB-Fubinaca. Police Chief Anthony Campbell said chemical was "knocking people down."

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (left) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city and county of Los Angeles, plus four other cities, were joining California's lawsuit over the 2020 census citizenship question in May.

California Legal Challenges To Census Citizenship Question To Continue

A federal judge in San Francisco has rejected the Trump administration's motion to dismiss two lawsuits over the 2020 census question. A potential trial could start in January 2019.

Greene, Levine Hammer Each Other In Democratic Fight For Governor

This is part of a series of stories that will advance the Aug. 28 primary elections It’s the norm for Republicans to paint themselves as the Trump-iest...

Four Republicans Vie For State Agriculture Commissioner

This is part of a series of stories that will advance the Aug. 28 primary elections Four Republicans --- two lawmakers, a former lawmaker and a palm...

Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."

Kofi Annan, Former U.N. Secretary-General, Peace Prize Winner, Dies At 80

Annan served two terms as United Nations Secretary-General before creating the Kofi Annan Foundation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.

Brett Kavanaugh sits behind independent counsel Kenneth Starr as Starr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on the possibility of President Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1998.

Brett Kavanaugh Investigated A President, Then Voiced Concerns About Doing Just That

The Trump Supreme Court pick wanted prosecutors to ask President Bill Clinton explicit questions and wrote the section of the independent counsel's report to Congress making the case for impeachment.

President Trump has become the first president to use his near-plenary power over security clearances to revoke one based, by his own admission, on the speech of the holder.

The Russia Investigations: Trump On Collision Course With National Security World

President Trump tries to put ex-CIA Director John Brennan in his place by revoking his security clearance. But the further Trump tries to push the revocation gambit, the riskier it gets.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday. A Pennsylvania grand jury says its investigation of clergy sexual abuse identified more than 1,000 child victims in records in six Roman Catholic dioceses.

The Clergy Abuse Crisis Has Cost The Catholic Church $3 Billion

Years after an investigation in Boston highlighted the dimensions of the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic priesthood, the financial and reputational cost to the Catholic church continues to grow.

"When the abuse crisis first broke ... people's hearts were broken by the abusers, but people were angry at the people in authority who covered it up," Father Lou Vallone of St. John of God church in McKees Rocks, Pa. said. "Now, it's gone beyond anger and it is rage."

'Beyond Anger': Pittsburgh Priest Says Sex Abuse Report 'Shook' Parishioners

Catholic priests in Pennsylvania will step into pulpits Sunday morning and have to address the massive clergy sex abuse revelations from this week's grand jury report.

Report Says Faculty At Connecticut School Sexually Abused Students For Years

A law firm found sexual abuse by seven now-former staffers against 16 students — going back as far as 1969 and lasting until 1992.

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