Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Jussie Smollett was charged with one count of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report, a Chicago police spokesman said Wednesday night.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said he told the State Department not to allow an Alabama woman who moved to Syria to join the Islamic State to return.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- An Iowa woman was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being found guilty of allowing her infant son to starve to death in 2017.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- UPI photographer Kevin Dietsch won a first-place prize in the University of Missouri's Pictures of the Year International contest this week for his photograph of Austrian skier Stephanie Brunner.

Scientists say they've taken a first step toward creating a pacemaker that runs on the heart's own energy rather than batteries.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The answer to whether a kid with eczema also develops a food allergy could lie just beneath the surface of their skin, a new study says.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The number of hate groups in the United States increased for the fourth year in a row in 2018 with a 7 percent jump, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Australian authorities arrested a woman for her alleged involvement in kidnappings and killings in Chile during the Pinochet regime from 1973 to 1990.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York City agreed to delay Michael Cohen's three-year prison sentence Wednesday.

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- New research shows that service dogs and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder have an unusually strong connection, a new study says.