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A child has fallen from a roller coaster at Idlewild and SoakZone in western Pennsylvania, a Westmoreland County emergency dispatcher told the Associated Press.

Would you have even done it if the other one wasn’t interested? We’ll see the awkward conversation next week as the episode ends with “to be continued…”

With the rookie in the slot, pressure is taken off of All-Pro Odell Beckham, a necessary addition to keep defenses from shifting to Beckham’s side of the field.

US stock index futures were higher on Thursday as oil prices steadied and investors awaited the weekly jobless claims data for hints of a strengthening labor market.

In an op-ed for the Deseret News, Clinton pitched herself as a champion for religious freedom and Trump as the opposite, pointing in particular to his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from immigrating to the United States.

A former North Carolina staffer is suing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, saying a top employee in the state working on the Republican’s White House bid once pulled a gun on him and that after he reported it, the campaign took no action.

The season is not expected to move to the “extremely active” level, he said, thanks to “competing conditions” that include “less conducive ocean temperature patterns in both the Atlantic and eastern subtropical North Pacific, combined with stronger...

Western allies worry that President Tayyip Erdogan is using the putsch and the purge that has followed to tighten his grip on power.

China, the 2008 Beijing champions who finished off the podium in London, were a shadow of their United States rivals, with Wang Yang qualifying seventh in the all-around and Shang Chunsong 20th as she complained of illness.

Owen Smith has won the backing of a trade union for the first time since he challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour Party.

If there was any doubt that Republicans were jumping off the Trump train, it ended Thursday on the sun-drenched Iowa State Fairgrounds when conservative Rep. Steve King began looking past the November election and acknowledging that he could work with Democratic nominee Hillary...

American Michael Phelps remains on course for his 22nd Olympic gold after he reached the final of the 200m individual medley at the 2016 Olympics. On Thursday, before they race, they’ll be “goofing off, playing card games, just a normal life”, Lochte said.

– Two more actresses have been added to the upcoming all-female cast of “Ocean’s Eleven” remake.

Disney announced its intentions to end the parade this fall on Wednesday.

The media seemed eager to move on from another hiccup for the Hillary Clinton campaign this week, dutifully repeating her line that she “disavows” the support of Seddique Mateen, the father of an Islamic terrorist.