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Chase Poust, 7, swam for an hour to get help for his father and sister -- who were caught in a strong current in a Florida river.

Brian Buglio, the police chief in West Hazleton, Pa., agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement, according to court records.

Police in Washington State are investigating after a boat whose occupants were allegedly heckling another vessel flying pride flags suddenly exploded and burst into flames.

China reports 1st human case of H10N3 bird flu strain

President Biden took a swipe at moderate Democrat Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for blocking his most ambitious parts of his agenda in Congress.

Donald Trump Jr. claimed that the New York Attorney General's probe into the Trump Organization is a form of "political persecution."

Prosecutors have begun informal plea negotiations with most of the Oath Keepers militia members charged in the conspiracy case involving the Jan. 6 insurrection.

A 22-year-old man and the sisters - aged 16 to 26 - were in a Honda Civic that plowed into a GMC Sierra on Highway 95 near Marsing, where the speed limit is 65 mph.

The woman was reportedly mauled by her own dog in Katy, Texas and left in critical condition.

The vice president has added another, and a politically thorny, problem to her growing portfolio.

A masked gunman opened fire at a wake early Wednesday morning in Springfield, Ohio, according to officials.

The Tribune identified more than 2,100 businesses that were damaged or ransacked throughout Chicago from May 29 to June 4, 2020. Many businesses were on the South and West sides, far from the attention given to damage do...

Wednesday: "Mayors don't have the luxury of offering prayers and platitudes," Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose said.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing civil rights charges for his deadly confrontation with George Floyd last year, made his initial federal court appearance via video link

The president, who has made racial equity and justice central themes of his administration, was in Tulsa, Okla., to commemorate a painful part of the country's history.

The US and allies take part in a large scale NATO mission involving more than 20 NATO nations, flying over NATO member states in an exercise designed in part to send a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Matthew Brust, 36, took a heroic plunge on Saturday evening after his girlfriend fell overboard on Crystal Lake in Burnsville, the Dakota County Sheriff's Office said.

The 46-year old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the policy would not be an adequate use of the Biden administration's resources as their vision for immigration differ from the Trump era.

Home surveillance camera captures the moment a brave teen rescued her dog after a huge bear grabbed it by its vest to try to protect her own cubs.

New Mexico is betting big that cash can persuade people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, offering the largest single cash prize among the growing number of states staging lotteries to promote inoculations

Hiker Patrick Eels was found dead after going missing on a hike in Colorado and suffering an apparent fatal fall.