The worst of the deadly winter flood is over in the St. Louis area, leaving residents of water-logged communities to assess the damage. "We're just basically homeless," said Damon Thorne, 44, whose Arnold mobile home washed away. "We have nowhere to go"
"I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing," Obama said in his weekly radio address, adding that tackling the U.S. epidemic of gun violence was "one piece of unfinished business"
New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit asking FanDuel and DraftKings to give back all the money they made in the state, the latest salvo in an ongoing clash with a pair of increasingly popular daily fantasy sports websites
By the end of New Year’s Day, Star Wars: The Force Awakens will have passed Titanic to become the second-biggest domestic movie of all time, Disney said. The film is currently about $100 million shy of passing record-holder Avatar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for constitutional changes that would turn Turkey's political system into a presidential system expanding the powers of his office, has cited Hitler's Germany as an example
New legislation went into effect across the U.S. on the first day of 2016, including a raised legal smoking age, and locked pill bottles. Some gun owners will also have an easier time carrying their firearms, while others will have a harder time
The daughter of Nat 'King' Cole overcame battles with substance abuse and the long shadow of her famous father to earn worldwide success of her own with hits such as "This Will Be", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign announced that it raised $37 million in the last three months, bringing its yearly fundraising total to $112 million and beating a fundraising goal of $100 million set by the campaign earlier in the year
Pope Francis welcomed 2016 with a call for an end to the "arrogance of the powerful" that relegates the weak to the outskirts of society, and to the "false neutrality" toward conflicts, hunger and persecution that triggers exoduses of refugees
Bill Cosby gave a first, brief public statement since being arrested and charged with sexual assault following an alleged incident at his home in 2004. “Friends and fans, Thank You,” a tweet posted to Cosby’s verified account read
The North Korean leader said in an annual New Year's speech Friday that he was ready for war if provoked by "invasive" outsiders, but he stayed away from past threats involving the country's nuclear weapons and long-range missile ambitions
Communications director Doug Watts and campaign manager Barry Bennett both quit after simmering tensions within Carson's camp boiled over, with much of the resentment focused on Carson's relationship with political commentator Armstrong Williams
TIME looks back on a year in photojournalism
