Stranger than Fiction:Actor and singer Jussie Smollett has been charged with  disorderly conduct for filing what the Chicago police now say was a false police report that he was the target of a racist and gay-hating attack last month. He faces …

Air Crash: The cockpit voice recorder from a German airliner was found yesterday amid the shattered wreckage on a charred French mountainside. Recovery teams flown in by helicopter found no signs of life. There had been 150 people on board. …

World: World leaders gathered in Normandy today to mark the 70th anniversary of the allied invasion to free Europe from Nazi Germany. The inescapable irony is that Russian President Vladmir Putin, whose bullying of Ukraine threatens world peace, was present …

Cancer Spike: Breast cancer is leading a worldwide spike in cancer deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Overall cancer deaths in 2012 were up 8 percent from the last survey in 2008. But breast cancer rose 14 percent in …

Travel: It’s snowing in western New York and Pennsylvania as holiday travelers hit the road. Snow fell in Atlanta, but mostly it’s raining along the Atlantic coast and the I-95 corridor, the east coast artery from Florida to Maine that …

The old joke in journalism is “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.” Reporters pride themselves on being skeptical of everything they’re told. People lie to us all the time. It’s a reporter’s job to smoke out …

Monster: At least 1,200 people are believed to be dead in the Philippines in aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, which has been described as the strongest storm ever to make landfall. The Red Cross reported an estimated 1,000 bodies floating in …