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It’s become a race against time in the search for 12 missing people from an oil industry platform ship that capsized in the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
The independent board that reviews Chicago police shootings says it will release body camera footage and other investigation materials Thursday pertaining to an officer's fatal shooting last month of a 13-year-old boy. More>>
The Biden administration is preparing to announce new sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interference. More>>
A Minnesota prosecutor has charged a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright with second-degree manslaughter. More>>
Nine lives notwithstanding, killing a cat in a hit-and-run soon could become illegal in New Hampshire. More>>
The defense for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death is pressing the case that he died of a sudden heart rhythm disturbance related to his heart disease. More>>
The top watchdog for the U.S. Capitol Police will testify to Congress for the first time about the department’s broad failures before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection. More>>
The Biden administration has been slow-walking the extension of a legislative order that would keep in place a sweeping tool that’s helped federal agents crack down on drugs chemically similar to fentanyl. More>>
As more people get COVID-19 vaccines, efforts are under way to develop ways to show proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test. More>>
The California Gold Rush town of Placerville will change its logo to remove a noose that is a reminder of its mid-19th century reputation as “Hangtown” following lynchings of criminal suspects by mobs of miners. More>>
Homeless Americans who have been left off priority lists for coronavirus vaccinations — or even bumped aside as states shifted eligibility to older age groups — are finally getting their shots as vaccine supplies increase. More>>
Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot by a police officer Sunday in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, after being pulled over for a minor traffic violation, setting off days of protests. More>>
One of the 23 women who have filed lawsuits accusing Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and harassment has dropped her case, citing privacy and security concerns after some of the women were ordered to make their names public following court hearings last week. More>>
Authorities in California say they've raided dozens of illegal gambling dens in San Diego, capping an investigation that's led to nearly 50 people facing gambling, gun and drug charges. More>>
A white Army non-commissioned officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been charged with third-degree assault. More>>
Prosecutors expect to decide Wednesday whether to charge the white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb, sparking nights of protests and raising tensions amid the nearby murder trial of the ex-officer charged with killing George Floyd. More>>
Federal officials announced Wednesday that farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project spanning the Oregon-California border will get 8% of the deliveries they need amid a severe drought. More>>
A California woman suspected of killing her three children has pleaded not guilty to carjacking during an alleged escape. More>>
Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died in prison. More>>
The Coast Guard in Louisiana says it and multiple other vessels have rescued six people from a commercial lift vessel that capsized off the Louisiana coast, and are searching for more survivors. More>>
A fellow classmate of a California college student who vanished from campus 25 years ago has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the case. More>>
The white police officer who fatally shot a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb has gone from being a respected professional who trained less experienced colleagues and led the department’s union, to a criminal defendant held up by community activists as a symbol of police aggression toward Black people. More>>
The attorney for the officer on trial in George Floyd’s death says several studies suggest police can safely use their bodyweight to hold a handcuffed suspect facedown on the ground, as Floyd was in the last minutes of his life. More>>
A use-of-force expert says former Officer Derek Chauvin was justified in pinning George Floyd to the ground because because he kept struggling. More>>
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says there are lessons to be drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic. More>>
U.S. health officials are weighing next steps as they investigate a handful of unusual blood clots in people who received Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. More>>
The Senate is poised to debate legislation confronting the rise of potential hate crimes against Asian Americans. More>>
The Boy Scouts of America have filed a new bankruptcy reorganization plan that increases the proposed contribution of local BSA councils to a trust fund for victims of child sex abuse. More>>
Some of California’s biggest school districts are starting to reopen classrooms this week, including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. More>>
Arizona lawmakers are moving to revamp sex education laws to be some of the strictest in the nation when it comes to teaching about LGBTQ issues. More>>
A former Ohio State student health director has surrendered his medical license after being accused of failing to report complaints in the mid-1990s about sexual misconduct by university doctor Richard Strauss, who's accused of abusing young men for two decades. More>>
Daunte Wright became a father while he was still a teenager. More>>
A blistering internal report by the U.S. Capitol Police describes a multitude of missteps that left the force unprepared for the Jan. 6 insurrection. More>>
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company has launched another capsule to the edge of space. More>>
A look at which U.S. states are leading at vaccinating against the coronavirus and which states are struggling is beginning to resemble America's electoral map. More>>
A friend of George Floyd who was with him the night he died won’t testify at the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged in his death. More>>
A recent spike in coronavirus cases in some states has led one of the nation's top health experts to suggest that governors could “close things down” like they did during previous surges. More>>
A lawyer is telling Pittsburgh police that Los Angeles Rams player Aaron Donald and others assaulted his 26-year-old client at a nightclub last weekend, causing multiple injuries. More>>
President Biden faces an uphill battle as he tries to push for more state laws that would allow authorities to temporarily disarm people who are considered a danger to themselves or others. More>>
At its start, America’s war in Afghanistan was about retribution for 9/11. More>>
Mike Elliott is among many who celebrated his election as mayor of Brooklyn Center as the beginning of a new era. More>>
Black children have long suffered from racial disparities in the U.S. foster care system. More>>
A study of people's attitudes toward the press finds that distrust goes deeper than just partisanship and down to how journalists define their mission. More>>
Farmers dealing with depressed prices for plants that produce CBD are eager to take part in a statewide marijuana market expected to generate billions of dollars a year once retail sales start. More>>
The “prime suspect” in the 25-year-old disappearance of a California college student has been taken into custody and the San Luis Obispo sheriff plans to announce “major developments” in the case. More>>
Police clashed with protesters for a second night in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot a Black man in a traffic stop over the weekend. More>>
A one-time California man who bilked wine collectors out of millions by selling cheaper booze he relabeled in his kitchen has been deported to his native Indonesia. More>>
President Joe Biden says he'll pick the president of the American Statistical Association to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as it works toward releasing data from the 2020 census that will be used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. More>>
Erik Denton had sought custody of his three young children on March 1, citing their mother's erratic and unstable behavior and mental health issues. More>>
More than a dozen prisoners have been released from custody after the Washington Supreme Court voided the state's drug possession law. More>>
The defense for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death is set to start presenting its case. More>>
The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. More>>
Sixteen states are backing Alabama’s challenge to a new method the Census Bureau is using in an effort to protect the privacy of people who participated in the head count. More>>
Top Federal Reserve policymakers underscored their concern that Black and Hispanic people are sharply underrepresented in the economics field, which lessens the perspectives that economists can bring to key policy issues. More>>
California is racing to spend more than a half-billion dollars before this year's wildfire season gets going in earnest. More>>
The attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer on trial in George Floyd’s death has revisited the disputed concept of excited delirium. More>>
A Detroit-area man convicted of killing his first wife and other crimes has won early release from federal prison because of the risk of COVID-19. More>>
A newly released investigatory report shows Idaho jailers watched as a mentally ill man starved to death, but a prosecutor says there isn’t enough evidence to justify criminal charges in the case. More>>
U.S. health officials say women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor’s office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic. More>>
If you got the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, don’t panic. More>>
Health authorities are investigating highly unusual blood clots after use of two COVID-19 vaccines, and a rare immune response is the main suspect. More>>
A federal court has lifted the hold on an Ohio law prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome. More>>
A former police officer serving 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed Black man running away from a South Carolina traffic stop said his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors that could have cut years off his sentence. More>>
Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida will permanently close the leaky Piney Point reservoir that poured millions of gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay while threatening to burst open and flood nearby homes and businesses. More>>
A U_S_ intelligence community report says the effects of the coronavirus pandemic are expected to contribute over the next year to “humanitarian and economic crises, political unrest, and geopolitical competition.". More>>
The National Transportation Safety Board says pilot error probably caused the 2019 crash of a World War II-era bomber in Connecticut that killed seven people and wounded six others. More>>
Police say multiple people including an officer have been shot at a high school in the east Tennessee city of Knoxville. More>>
A decision looms for a former police officer about whether to speak to jurors directly at his trial for murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. More>>
More than 300 businesses and investors are calling on the Biden administration to set an ambitious climate change goal that would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. More>>
Georgia authorities say three officers were injured when the passenger of a car shot them during a police chase that ended with one suspect killed and the other arrested. More>>
The large, brightly colored art installations of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama are part of an expansive new show called “Kusama: Cosmic Nature” at The New York Botanical Garden. More>>
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently extended its eviction moratorium through the end of June. More>>
Two books based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project” will be released this fall, with contributions from Jesmyn Ward, Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. More>>
Mourners have gathered in a Minnesota city where a man was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop, then crashed and later died. More>>
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office has identified the U.S. Navy sailor who shot and killed himself on Monday in a luxury resort after a police standoff. More>>
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is set to sign legislation that will legalize recreational marijuana use and sales in the state. More>>
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who staged a $2 million robbery of a marijuana warehouse has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. More>>
California has lifted its limits on indoor worship services in the face of U.S. Supreme Court and other rulings that struck down the coronavirus public health mandates. More>>
Officials believe equipment from a marijuana grow in a Los Angeles home’s garage may have caused an explosion that shattered the structures, trapping one man in the debris and sending another to the hospital with critical burn injuries. More>>
The Biden White House is amplifying the push for its $2.3 trillion infrastructure package with state-by-state breakdowns that show the dire shape of roads, bridges, the power grid and housing affordability. More>>
Authorities have identified the three young children who were killed in a gruesome slaying in Los Angeles over the weekend. More>>
The trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death enters its third week Monday. More>>
Prosecutors trying a white former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death put one of Floyd’s brothers on the witness stand in a further effort to humanize him for the jury. More>>
Authorities: One person dead, officer wounded in shooting confrontation at a Tennessee high school. More>>
The former police chief of Connecticut’s largest city has been sentenced to one year in prison for rigging the hiring process that led to his appointment in 2018. More>>
The former top FBI agent in Albany, New York, was a “skilled predator” who harassed eight women in one of the bureau's most egregious known sexual misconduct cases. More>>
Court documents show the woman arrested on suspicion of killing her three young children at her Los Angeles apartment had been involved in a custody dispute with their father. More>>
Official says scene has been secured at Tennessee high school where multiple people were shot. More>>
A historic drought in a massive agricultural region straddling Northern California and southern Oregon could mean steep cuts to the water provided to hundreds of farmers to sustain endangered fish species. More>>
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is attacking YouTube for its decision to remove from its website a video of a pandemic panel discussion he recently held that it considered disinformation. More>>
A Black football player at a northwest Illinois high school is seen on video sitting down in a locker littered with banana peels after a teammate threatens to break his knees if he doesn't comply. More>>
The judge overseeing the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd says he’ll leave it up to the jury to sort out whether Floyd yelled “I ate too many drugs” or “I ain’t do no drugs” as three officers pinned him to the ground. More>>
A desert city built on a reputation for excess wants to become a model for conservation with a first-in-the-nation policy banning grass that nobody walks on. More>>
New versions of COVID-19 vaccines are now being tested in case they ever are needed to protect against mutated versions of the virus. More>>
A number of top executives and corporate leaders gathered online this weekend to discuss what to do in response to controversial changes to some state voting laws, according to multiple news reports. More>>
More Black Americans say they are open to taking the coronavirus vaccine. More>>
About 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication — rather than surgery — and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic. More>>
Like any defense attorney, Eric Nelson has a broad strategy as he questions witnesses at Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death. More>>
Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” continued its tour of dominance through awards season Saturday night, when Zhao took top honors at the 73rd annual Directors Guild Association Awards. More>>
Five women who made history by working an entire firefighting shift with no men are still thriving at their fire department in Florida months later. More>>
A sixth person has died after a shooting earlier this week by a former NFL player who also killed four members of a South Carolina family. More>>
Two Utah sheriff’s deputies were wounded and the suspect was killed in a shooting outside the Salt Lake County jail. More>>
Los Angeles police have arrested a mother whose three children were found slain in Los Angeles Saturday morning. More>>
A former sheriff’s dispatcher in a New Orleans suburb has been arrested, accused by authorities of refusing to return more than $1.2 million that had been accidentally deposited into her brokerage account. More>>
Maryland lawmakers have overridden Gov. Larry Hogan's vetoes of three extensive police reform measures. More>>
Authorities say a 27-year veteran of the Iowa State patrol was killed during a standoff with a man in the community of Grundy Center. More>>
Prosecutors hope to preserve a July trial date for Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell by defending an expansion of charges against her. More>>
The murder trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death has introduced viewers from around the world to a vast array of defense and prosecution tactics aimed at swaying the jury. More>>
Georgia’s Republican governor has stepped up his attack on Major League Baseball’s decision to pull this summer’s All-Star Game from the state in response to a sweeping new voting law. More>>
New details from the deadly riot of Jan. 6 are in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use. More>>
A New York man is facing hate crime charges after police said he made threats and anti-Asian American remarks to someone who turned out to be an undercover officer assigned to a hate crimes task force. More>>
Authorities say one person is dead and three others were injured in a shooting at a convenience store in southern Missouri. More>>
State lawmakers across the U.S. are taking actions to limit the emergency powers of governors — not just in the current coronavirus pandemic, but for any future emergencies. More>>
Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw says he has undergone surgery on his eye and will be virtually sightless for a month. More>>
The U.S. Justice Department has dropped its challenge to court decisions that said the federal government could not force two Rhode Island cities to turn police into federal immigration agents. More>>
A Rochester man has been charged with setting off explosives in another man’s yard and sending letters to neighbors warning that he planned to continue doing it. More>>
After a deadly year in New York’s nursing homes, state lawmakers have passed legislation that could potentially force facility owners to spend more on patient care. More>>
Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, another step in the Biden’s administration rush to set up temporary space. More>>
Ray Lambert, the Army medic who survived multiple wounds on D-Day and was saluted by a president on the 75th anniversary of the World War II battle, has died at the age of 100. More>>
A man who poisoned eight homeless people in a Southern California beach town so he could videotape their reactions has been sentenced to four years in state prison. More>>
Authorities say a man opened fire at a Texas cabinet-making company where he worked, killing one person and wounding five others before shooting and wounding a state trooper before his arrest. More>>
Four dead gray whales have washed onto San Francisco Bay Area beaches in the last nine days. More>>
Officials say a small community in south-central Arizona remained under an evacuation notice Friday after crews and air tankers stopped the growth of a wildfire that burned at least 12 homes the day before. More>>
The brain of the former NFL player who killed five people in South Carolina before fatally shooting himself will be tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of pro athletes. More>>
A medical expert says George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen that damaged his brain and caused his heart to stop. More>>
Wayne LaPierre flies exclusively on private jets, he sailed around the Bahamas for “security” and never sends emails or texts in his work running the nation’s most politically influential gun-rights group. More>>
Doctors charged with determining the cause of an individual’s death try to learn all they can about the person’s life. More>>
It’s been over a year since a choir practice in Washington state sickened 53 people and killed two, becoming one of the first known COVID-19 superspreader events in the United States. More>>
Amazon is heading into the final stretch of a union push in Bessemer, Alabama with a sizeable lead over labor organizers. More>>
West Virginia is about to lose another congressional seat because of its steady population decline. More>>
New Jersey gambling regulators say the coronavirus outbreak sent profits plunging at Atlantic City's casinos by more than 80% last year. More>>
Caitlyn Jenner is considering a run for California governor. More>>
Police accused of wrongdoing can usually count on the blue wall of silence — protection from fellow officers that includes everything from shutting off body cameras to refusing to cooperate with investigators. More>>
President Joe Biden is preparing to unveil a series of executive actions aimed at addressing gun violence, delivering his first major action on gun control since taking office. More>>
Coney Island’s illustrious amusement parks have reopened after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered them all last year. More>>
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has signed a partial ban on no-knock warrants a year after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. More>>
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has sided with Democrats and ruled that the state elections commission should not remove from the rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, something conservatives have wanted done for nearly two years. More>>
Authorities are trying to figure out why former NFL player Phillip Adams shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, three of his family members and a repairman before taking his own life. More>>
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is once again drawing scrutiny for questionable comments he made to Wall Street analysts, this time involving the status of his company’s vehicle production. More>>
Police say the driver of a large farm vehicle in Vermont arrived at his field to find a car wedged in the frame and the two occupants dead inside. More>>
A Florida woman whose image went viral when she deliberately coughed on a customer at a Pier 1 store last year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. More>>
After a decade of planning and a head count that was challenged by an unprecedented pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing the first numbers from the 2020 census before the end of the month. More>>
Two young men who caused a sensation four years ago when they created their own gory zombie movie are back, this time in a documentary championed by a Hollywood luminary. More>>
Homebuyers are facing the most competitive U.S. housing market in decades this spring. More>>
Complex forces are driving an increase in the number of migrant families and unaccompanied children coming to the U.S. Many say President Joe Biden's positions on immigration, whether real or rumored, have influenced their decisions. More>>
Police say multiple people have been hurt in a shooting at a business in Bryan, Texas, and that the shooter is not in custody. More>>
Authorities say a gunman killed five people including a prominent doctor and his grandchildren in South Carolina. More>>
U.S. intelligence officials are painting a dark picture of the world’s future, saying that the coronavirus pandemic has deepened economic inequality, strained government resources and fanned nationalist sentiments. More>>
Police say a man has been charged with unlawful use of a firearm by a felon in connection with a shooting that wounded a 21-month-old boy who was riding in a car with him on Chicago’s famed Lake Shore Drive. More>>
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Utah this week before submitting a review on national monuments in the state. More>>
The attorney for the officer on trial in George Floyd’s death has raised the concept of excited delirium as testimony examines whether reasonable force was used on Floyd. More>>
A key witness in the trial of an ex-Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd used videos, animations and other imagery to argue that Floyd died of a lack of oxygen that damaged his brain and stopped his heart. More>>
A use-of-force expert says Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck area the entire time that he was handcuffed behind his back and lying facedown. More>>
California plans to authorize $536 million toward forest management projects and efforts to reduce wildfires before the worst of fire season strikes later this year. More>>
The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades. More>>
If President Joe Biden gets his way, the United States is going to be spending an enormous sum on infrastructure. More>>
Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is backing Terry McAuliffe in the race to succeed him, handing his predecessor one of the contest’s most coveted endorsements. More>>
New York lawmakers have created a $2.1 billion fund to aid workers who lost jobs or income during the coronavirus pandemic but were excluded from other government relief programs because of their immigration status. More>>
Talks between U.S. and Syrian officials last summer over the fate of journalist Austin Tice and other American hostages foundered over conditions laid out by Damascus and because of a lack of meaningful information provided on the fate of Tice. More>>
New Hampshire police have arrested a seventh man in connection with sex abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center. More>>
The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to demand cruise ships be allowed to start sailing immediately. More>>
Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling on the organizers of the Boston Marathon to move the date for the storied race because it conflicts with a day meant to celebrate the contributions of Indigenous peoples. More>>
Portland, Oregon, has hired a California consulting firm to investigate whether the culture of the city's police force includes racial or political bias and to examine complaints that the agency is resistant to change. More>>
Firefighters say an explosion and fire at a paint manufacturer's plant in Columbus, Ohio, left one worker dead and eight people injured. More>>
An animal rights activist whose investigations have made him a leading foe of the livestock industry has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility. More>>
President Joe Biden appears ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. More>>
The rancorous fight over jail conditions for Ghislaine Maxwell are reaching new lows. More>>
Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at the Mexican border in March, smashing previous highs set during periods of heavy child migration in 2014 and 2019. More>>
U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. More>>
The Ohio Supreme Court has delayed the execution of a convicted killer whose case federal public defenders said slipped through the cracks of the legal system. More>>
A white Republican lawmaker from southeast Oklahoma is coming under fire for comparing efforts to end abortion to the fight against slavery. More>>
The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer on trial in the death of George Floyd has tried to show that Floyd yelled “I ate too many drugs” as officers pinned him to the ground. More>>
Leatherback sea turtles have been plying the world's oceans for tens of millions of years, but scientists say a rapid decline in their numbers means they could disappear from U.S. West Coast waters within decades. More>>
Statistics show that Winston County ranks last in terms of people who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in Alabama, which has the country’s lowest inoculation rate. More>>
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