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A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows an 18% decrease in the homicide rate across 30 American cities from 2025 compared to the same period in 2026

Tropical Storm Bertha has made landfall in Louisiana

The U.S. Navy is restricting press access to information about service members by no longer releasing details about sailors' service history

The family of Nolan Xavier Wells is still grappling for answers about the 18-year-old athlete's death

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is giving up on its plan to use two rural Pennsylvania warehouses to hold thousands of people

Two witnesses have told a federal court the immigration agent who fatally shot a Mexican man in Houston on July 7 was in no danger of being run over

Madison's chief of police says an officer in Wisconsin's capital city shot and killed a man who had injured him with a knife while resisting arrest

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University of Miami scientists are working to save an endangered coral species from extinction by bringing them ashore

The rocky relationship between the U.S. and Canada is spoiling the celebration of an extraordinary project between the two countries

The head of the World Trade Organization says surging global demand for critical minerals should be a once-in-a-lifetime chance for resource-rich countries in Africa and elsewhere to harness wealth and improve life for millions

New protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales are almost certain to face a nearly decade-long delay

Torrential rains in West Virginia have caused flash flooding that inundated homes and businesses

FBI Director Kash Patel has met with Cambodia's prime minister to discuss how to tackle online scams targeting victims worldwide

The Trump administration is expected to sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program

Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches before Tropical Storm Bertha brings flooding and wind from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana

President Donald Trump plans to attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members recently killed in the Middle East

The man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again

A small Texas town is challenging the Trump administration's border wall plans, arguing they could cause flooding and bypass legal processes

President Donald Trump says Trump Accounts could lift children out of poverty and help more Americans invest in the stock market

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs has won the Republican nomination for Arizona governor

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump plans to release the results of an independent autopsy into the death of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells on Wednesday

Honduran authorities have confirmed that four of the five people who drowned in an Ohio river over the weekend are Honduran citizens

An active-duty soldier who was hit by a stray bullet outside the White House plans to sue the Secret Service over the severe injuries he suffered

The Mexican man who was struck and killed by a tractor trailer while running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida had been vacationing in the U.S. on a tourist visa

The Wisconsin Democratic Party is urging the state elections commission to allow voters who already cast absentee ballots to vote again

A cargo plane packed with food and hygiene kits has left Miami for Cuba as part of the U.S. governments humanitarian assistance efforts for the people of the island nation

The Trump administration says it's deferring over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California because of suspected fraud and noncompliance

A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president

Powerball ticket sales in the United Kingdom will begin Tuesday, allowing players there to compete for the same massive jackpots as U.S. players

An appeals court has set aside convictions for two men involved in a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

The Supreme Court has agreed to review an Alaska bush pilots claims that state authorities have tried to illegally seize his $95,000 airplane after a passenger brought a six-pack of beer on a flight bound for a dry village

Authorities say five people have died on a river in Ohio after several of them went into the water to assist another person who was struggling to swim

A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill and beady eyes is making a comeback in North America thanks to a yearslong conservation effort

Infants, toddlers and young children need outdoor activity to build strong bodies and minds, but they also require extra care in the heat

The Trump administration has identified two soldiers killed in action last week as part of the U.S. war with Iran

Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who's serving life for orchestrating her husband's 1990 murder, are hoping that a New Hampshire judge will allow her latest petition for a new trial

Jury selection begins in the murder trial of a Massachusetts woman who is expected to argue that postpartum issues were the reason she killed her three children

Three new women's world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate in Miami on Monday

The Justice Department has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to weigh government requests to deport so-called alien terrorists from the United States

Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. David Schweikert are clashing in the Republican primary for Arizona governor

The U.S. military said Sunday it had ended its latest round of airstrikes on Iran, which included targeting Irans paramilitary Revolutionary Guard over an attack that killed American troops in Jordan

President Donald Trump is set to present the World Cup trophy to the winner of Sundays final between Argentina and Spain

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. The California-based company said produc...

A famous Cuban dissident artist, Luis Manuel Otero Alcntara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country

A father and son are expected to face federal kidnapping charges after they zip-tied two U.S. Forest Service employees and held them at gunpoint inside a trailer in Northern California near Mt

Officials in Texas have implemented major changes to improve flood warnings after last year's deadly floods in Hill Country

The United States and Iran are crossing each other's red lines, one after the other

Utah has revoked another license for the boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager