Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Former Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani was sentenced to 12 years and 11 months in federal prison Wednesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk warned the suffering by millions across Ukraine must not be normalized, as a new U.N. report documents the deaths of hundreds of civilians.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Loudoun County Public Schools has fired Superintendent Scott Ziegler one day after a grand jury report blasted the district's handling of two sexual assaults by the same student.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The oldest gay bar in New York City is now a landmark building, after the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building that houses Julius' Bar as an individual landmark.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Grocery bills are too expensive for the average American and customers are changing their shopping habits, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Private companies spent $757.1 million on Wednesday, to secure offshore rights to floating wind turbines in California, the Department of the Interior said in a release on Wednesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The Justice Department accused Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian politician, of money laundering and bank fraud on Wednesday.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Smokers will soon see new warning signs when they go to purchase a new pack after a new order from the Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A large and mysterious wooden object, partially unearthed by hurricane erosion on a Florida beach, appears to be a shipwreck from the 1800s, according to archaeologists who inspected the site.

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The Federal Bureau of Prisons committed a series of "failures" that led to the death of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger four years ago, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday.