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Ex-wife of Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens alleges he physically abused her and their children

The ex-wife of leading GOP Senate candidate and former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens alleged he was physically abusive toward his children and her, according to court documents filed Monday.

Calling Putin a war criminal is a bigger deal than you think

Airstrikes on an art school and a maternity hospital. Residential apartment buildings taking fire from tanks. More than 900 civilians killed in a matter of weeks.

175 Texas fires have torched about 95,000 acres in the past week. But one major fire is now under control

While firefighters grapple with wildfires across Texas, a bit of good news emerged Monday: the Big L Fire is now "under control," Hood County officials said.

CDC: Avoid travel to this 'very high' risk Indian Ocean island

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added just one new destination to its highest-risk category for travel on Monday -- and it's again an Indian Ocean island nation.

City donates 33 bison to rebuild Native American herds

The City and County of Denver is giving bison from its mountain park herd to three indigenous tribes. Those bison will head to tribal lands across the West.

READ: Ketanji Brown Jackson's opening statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Below is the text of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's opening statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, as prepared for delivery:

Google settles with 6 engineers who alleged they faced retaliation for organizing

Google has reached a settlement with six engineers who alleged the company unlawfully retaliated against them over their workplace organizing efforts.

Apple services including App Store, Apple Music and iCloud hit by brief outage

A number of Apple services were hit by a short-lived outage for some users on Monday afternoon.

Spring equinox 2022: At last! The first day of spring

Few of us will ever have a way with words as Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst, did:

Alcohol-related deaths in the US spiked more than 25% in the first year of the pandemic, study shows

The number of deaths in the US involving alcohol jumped 25.5% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Young people need us to see them as they are, and adults are off the mark, a study say

There is more we can do to make our kids feel seen, accepted and secure -- and it starts with adding more terms for gender identity and sexual orientation to the official forms we give them, according to a new …

Woman's sitting room in ruins after car smashes into house; neighbors say it was a race gone wrong

The front of a house in Norwood Park had been left wrecked and unstable Friday night, a night after a driver lost control and slammed into the home.

OB-GYN fired after reporting allegation of sexual assault by colleague speaks out

An OB-GYN doctor is speaking out for the first time after she reported an allegation of sexual assault by one of her male colleagues and was later fired.

SpaceX will now launch satellites for top space broadband competitor, OneWeb

SpaceX has a new deal to launch internet-beaming satellites for its chief competitor in the satellite business — British company OneWeb.

Match launches new dating app for single parents

Match on Monday rolled out a new service called Stir that aims to remove some of the barriers around dating as a single parent.