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San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday that his office will dismiss thousands of marijuana-related convictions dating back to 1975, now that pot is legal in the state.

An investigation by The Associated Press details a massacre and at least five mass graves in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled from there to Bangladesh since last August.

With tourism way down after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the Virgin Islands have lost their main economic engine at a time when it's most needed. But recovery is gradually happening.

Authorities say they tried to break up two separate brawls involving more than a hundred Eritrean and Afghan migrants at Calais, the French port that many hope to use to cross over to the U.K.

Alexandria Duval, who was accused of deliberately driving off a cliff and killing her identical twin sister, Anastasia, was found not guilty of murder on Thursday in a nearly weeklong bench trial.

In 2014, Morgan Geyser repeatedly stabbed a classmate, leaving her victim for dead. She and another girl believed the attack would curry favor with a fictional Internet character.

Juicing is all the rage – and produces lots of leftover fruit and vegetable bits. Once thrown out as compost, that fiber is now sneaking its way into snacks, breakfast foods and even burgers.

The monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows continued growth in jobs, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.1 percent. Wages rose at their highest rate since June 2009.

This isn't a gushing ode to romance or a lamentation on lost love. Jay Som's latest track deals with the tricky, blurry feelings that fall somewhere in between.

An estimated 246 migrants have died in January crossing the Mediterranean, part of what advocates call "an undeniable trend of tragedy in the Mediterranean."