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In the latest scandal to hit the world soccer governing body, FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke has been put on leave amid allegations of a plot to profit personally from ticket sales.

Runners from Kenya, who had for years been considered the best of the best in the world, were nearly shut out from the podium entirely.

Weather-related traffic accidents have accounted for some of the deaths. Others have collapsed while shoveling snow. Several victims are said to have been homeless people who either didn't want to go to shelters or didn't get to one in time. Thankfully, more moderate weather is about to arrive.

Lawyer and journalist Adam Cohen explores five decades of Supreme Court opinions and comes to a rueful conclusion: These decisions have greatly exacerbated the space between rich and poor.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has no power to enforce Friday's ruling, but it adds international pressure on Israel.

Oklahoma's top education official has made headlines for mandating Bibles in each classroom but once upon a time he was a high school teacher who enjoyed dissecting racy HBO dramas with students.

Repeal of the health law is unlikely to succeed, but Republicans are setting their sights on some vulnerable provisions. If they succeed, it would affect the country's direction in health spending and coverage.

In an interview with NPR, The New York Times' new executive editor, Dean Baquet, said Jill Abramson was fired because of her failed relationship with the publisher and with senior editors.

Spanish authorities took the politicians into custody after Catalonia, a formerly semiautonomous region, declared independence from Spain. Catalan's former president remains in exile in Belgium.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.