Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison after a week of raw emotional testimony by scores of women he sexually abused for years under the guise of medical treatment.
The impasse, the first of its kind since 2013, cast a huge shadow over the first anniversary on Saturday of President Donald Trump's inauguration.
In this extraordinary 12 months, the world has been fascinated and shocked in equal measure by the behaviour of the incumbent of the Oval Office.
Houthi militia sources say their fighters stopped Ali Abdullah Saleh's armoured vehicle outside the embattled capital Sanaa and then killed him. The likely impact of Saleh's assassination on the civil war and regional proxy war in Yemen is unclear.
The Sunday night shooting spree killed at least 59 people before the gunman turned a weapon on himself. More than 500 were injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Emergency services race to evacuate people from a river valley below the dam in the island's northwest, which is on the verge of collapse, officials say.
A new wave of sanctions will further tighten the screws on Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programme.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani defends his country’s nuclear deal with world powers and defines US President Donald Trump as “rogue newcomers” without mentioning his name.
Many people are still trapped by rising floodwaters as rescue efforts continue. Harvey is set to make landfall again on Wednesday.
Emergency crews raced to pull people from cars and homes as flood waters rose across southeast Texas on Sunday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the situation was "bad and growing worse".
Although Harvey was downgraded to a tropical storm, it knocked out power to more than 230,000 people and threatened catastrophic flooding.
The statues commemorate the American South, which had a slave-based economy. Many were torn down after the August 12 Charlottesville white supremacist rally in which a counter-protester died, but the argument for and against the monuments continues.
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