U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan said the 18 months will include the approximately nine months Butina already has served in jail since her arrest in July. Butina's lawyers had asked the judge to impose a sentence of time served, and the probation office had suggested a sentence of 12 months and one day. Butina, a former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, begged the judge for mercy before her sentencing and expressed remorse.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:32 am EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay any money to North Korea as it sought the release of Otto Warmbier, a day after a report said Trump had approved a $2 million bill from Pyongyang for the American student's care. "No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else," Trump wrote in a tweet.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:12 am EDT

The crash on Thursday afternoon turned a stretch of Interstate 70, a major east-west highway, into a raging inferno that involved at least 28 vehicles and may have damaged the road surface and an overpass, authorities said. A day after the crash, the death toll remains at "multiple" as responders and investigators inspect the burned-out vehicles, Lakewood, Colorado, police spokesman Ty Countryman told reporters. The driver, who was injured in the crash, but not seriously, was taken into custody after police determined they had sufficient cause to bring "multiple counts of vehicular homicide" against him, Countryman said.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:02 am EDT

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's lawyers asked a Florida judge to toss out hidden-camera videos that prosecutors say show the 77-year-old billionaire receiving sexual favors for money inside a Florida massage parlor. "We think the whole warrant is unlawful," defense attorney Jack Goldberger told Judge Leonard Hanser in Palm Beach County court. Prosecutors, however, said Kraft cannot challenge the video's legality because he could not have had any expectation of privacy in the first place.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 10:22 am EDT

“Dear Men” explores how men are navigating the evolution of manhood. You can watch the current week's full episode of “Dear Men” every Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on Roku. So why are young men struggling? So I don’t never hold back my tears when I'm feeling an emotional overload,” he said.

Posted Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9:00 am EDT

It has been a year since former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for abusing more than 150 girls. But Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman is still coming to terms with the sexual abuse she experienced as a teenager.

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2019 9:10 am EST

Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman tells the Yahoo News show “Through Her Eyes” that she sometimes finds it difficult to hear the graphic details in the sexual assault stories of others, as she is still coping with her own traumatic experience.

Posted Monday, February 18, 2019 1:26 pm EST

Karen Kinzle Zegel spends her days working on the Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation website, fielding questions and giving out information on a disease she barely knew existed five years ago – until it took the life of her son, for whom the foundation is named. Karen remembers, “We were a football family, his dad was a coach, I would cheer and yell and you know, do all the things the football mom does. At the time, she was unaware of CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head – and the role it was playing in Patrick’s life.

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2019 9:00 am EST

Quinn, 54, is a partner and founder of Short Hills-based Genki Advisory LLC, a consulting and investment services company. Quinn also is chairman of the Washington-based Brady organizations to prevent gun violence, according to a statement issued by Murphy’s office.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:53 am EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association (all times local):

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:53 am EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A government report showing solid economic growth and a mixed bag of corporate earnings sent U.S. stocks sideways in midday trading Friday on Wall Street.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:52 am EDT

A stretch of highway west of Denver remained closed Friday hours after an out-of-control semi-tractor trailer carrying wood slammed into stopped cars causing multiple fatalities, police said.

Posted Friday, April 26, 2019 11:52 am EDT