The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate diversity and ...

Over his long career, Robert Duvall brought a wide range of characters to life, from tough Marines to wistful, tender-hearted cowboys. Duvall died on Sunday. His wife Luciana posted on Facebook on ...

An Oscar winner, he was known for disappearing into wide-ranging roles in movies like “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” and in the television series “Lonesome Dove.” In a long and varied career, ...

The approach to the summit of Mount Marcy via the Van Hoevenberg Trail is seen on Aug. 24, 2017, in Keene. A hiker from New Jersey was found dead near the summit of New York’s highest peak on Thursday ...

Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor best known for “The Godfather,“ “Apocalypse Now” and many other tough-guy roles over an acclaimed screen career that spanned six decades, has died. He was 95.

A Chicago teenager whose father was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year as she was sick with a rare form of cancer has died. Ofelia Torres died on Friday at the age of 16 ...

It’s been more than 30 years since the world lost an American icon: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The former first lady — who was married to President John F. Kennedy until his assassination in 1963 — ...

Manchester Orchestra drummer Tim Very has died. The Atlanta rock band announced the loss on social media on Saturday (February 14), writing: “We’ve all been dreading sharing this news as we are all ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Actress Lory Patrick, known for her roles on such TV shows as “Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Wagon Train” and “Bonanza” has died. She was 92. Deadline reported she died peacefully at her Gettysburg home on ...

Shelly Desai, the Bombay-born character actor familiar to TV audiences for his recurring roles on the FX series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia comedy and TNT’s Men of A Certain Age, died Tuesday, ...

This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews with physicians, including those who have cared directly for patients with measles. The birthday-party invitation said “siblings welcome,” ...