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An Arkansas sheriff's deputy who shot and killed an unarmed teenager during a traffic stop was fired because his body camera wasn't on when he fired his gun, authorities said.

A U-Haul truck carrying fireworks exploded in Ohio on Sunday — setting off a dramatic chain-reaction that injured four people, according to reports. The blast went off around 10:30 p.m. in East Toledo after a group of ...

The magazine's Ethicist columnist on weighing a sibling's needs against your own -- and more.

More than 125 campers and adults who attended a summer camp run by a South Texas church have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a statement from Clear Creek Community Church Lead Pastor Bruce Wesley.

Dozens of demonstrators showed up Monday at the home of a South Jersey man who was caught on video belligerently hurling racial slurs at one of his neighbors.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Sunday that he "absolutely" could support a proposed national voter ID requirement offered last month by Sen. Joe Manchin.

The Long Beach Police Department told USA TODAY that the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. There were no suspects as of Monday night.      

Fresh out of prison on one of the five dozen sexual assault charges he's saddled with, disgraced comedian and actor Bill Cosby urged Howard University to stand by the "free speech" rights of his "Cosby Show" co-star Phyl...

The FBI is still searching for 100s of Capitol rioters 6 months after Jan. 6 insurrection

A race car crashed into a wall at a Georgia track, killing a man in the audience and injuring a 9-year-old child, reports said.

A Missouri hospital ran out of ventilators over the Fourth of July weekend amid a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations potentially caused by the spreading Delta variant.

A man who was being hunted by North Carolina cops this weekend stole a TV news car then crashed head-on into a police cruiser, a report said. Marcus Brown, 19, was one of four men on the run from cops in rural Pittsboro ...

A Texas hospital underwent a baby boom approaching the July 4 holiday with 100 babies being delivered in two increments for a combined total of just 91 hours.

Upwards of 150 people died over the holiday weekend in 400 shootings, according to new statistics.

Rupert Murdoch "owes himself a better legacy than a news channel that no reasonable person would believe," Preston Padden wrote.

R. Kelly's new lawyers are asking a judge to postpone his Aug. 9 sex trafficking trial in New York City, arguing they haven't had enough time to prepare because he's under a mandatory jail quarantine since his transfer f...

Yale University is offering a course this fall that likens the US prison system to the Soviet Gulag.

Portland, the largest city in the Beaver State, broke its all-time temperature record for three straight days, topping out at 116 degrees on June 28.      

Even as many left the city for the Fourth of July weekend, pockets of activity provided a glimpse of post-pandemic life.

A white police chief has resigned after a decades-long career after he left a piece of paper reading "Ku Klux Klan" on a Black officer's desk.

Amid thunderstorms, rescue workers continue to search Florida condo collapse site

The death toll in the Florida building collapse climbed to 28 on Monday, as officials warned foul weather from Tropical Storm Elsa was beginning to hamper search efforts.