A 911 call about someone in the water off Northwestern University's campus ended with a 19-year-old student dead. Saba Hani Alkaabi, a 19-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, was pronounced dead at 8:05 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, at Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital, after rescuers pulled her unresponsive body from Lake Michigan near...

President Donald Trump's administration has won a hearing at the Supreme Court in its fight to keep the records of the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency out of public view. The justices agreed Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, to hear the administration's bid to withhold records from the Department of Government...

A Venezuelan singer was found at the bottom of his own backyard pool, and first responders’ radio traffic described him as “tied up.” Gustavo Enrique Ormo, 45, the singer, composer and pianist who performed as Gus Ormo, was found face down in the pool of his Weston, Fla., home on...

A private elevator into the defense secretary's suite, a standing line to his chief of staff and a 40-minute grilling of a job candidate have landed the Pentagon chief's wife in federal court filings. Democracy Forward, a legal advocacy group, sued the Defense Department on Sept. 28 seeking records on...

One of Bruce Willis' oldest Hollywood friends says the actor has no idea anything is wrong. Kevin Pollak, who appeared alongside Willis in "The Whole Nine Yards," its sequel "The Whole Ten Yards" and "Hostage," talked about him with host Steve Kmetko on the "Still Here Hollywood" podcast, in comments...

Days after he was laughing and singing with Tim McGraw at the Country Music Hall of Fame, the voice behind "Seminole Wind" is gone. John Anderson, the Hall of Fame vocalist whose unmistakable warble powered "Swingin'" and "Straight Tequila Night," has died at 71. His family announced the death on...

The burials in a Kenyan forest were called weddings, and the dead were celebrated as having wed Jesus. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge was convicted of murdering 190 children and one adult by a Kenyan court on Monday, Oct. 19. The court also found 28 of his co-defendants guilty. Justice Diana...

She spent her last years hosting a closed-circuit talk show for the people who cooked and cleaned at her retirement home, after seven decades of playing nurses, grandmothers and nuns on screen. Betty McGuire, the actress who played Maggie Seaver’s mother on “Growing Pains,” died of natural causes on Oct....