A former New York City police officer has pleaded guilty to an obstruction charge in a murder-for-hire plot that authorities say sought the death of her husband and her boyfriend's teenage daughter

Viewers reacted with a mix of outrage and grief to newly released bodycam video that shows a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old less than a second after the boy appeared to drop a handgun, turn toward the officer and begin raising his hands

New Englanders who had enjoyed an early spring are getting a kick in the pants with a storm packing powerful wind gusts, lashing rain, and heavy, wet snow

A lawsuit filed in Seattle against Boeing alleges a malfunctioning autothrottle system on an older 737 jet led to the January crash of a Sriwijaya Air flight that killed all 62 people on board

The mayor of a Minneapolis suburb that's seen nightly protests after a white police officer fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright contends police are overreacting to demonstrators and should scale back their tactics

After a significant drop in mass shootings in the United States during a pandemic-hit 2020, this year has seen several deadly ones

More than 111 million Americans voted before Election Day in 2020

Police say a shy podcaster helped them arrest the longtime suspect in the killing of California college student Kristin Smart nearly a quarter-century ago

The former dean of Temple University’s business school has been charged with falsifying data to boost the school’s rankings, draw more students and donors and vastly increase the school’s revenue

West Point officials say most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being required to repeat a year and eight were expelled

Police in Indianapolis have identified the shooter who opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis as a young male in his 20s

Liberty University has filed a civil lawsuit against its former leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., seeking millions in damages after the two parted ways acrimoniously last year

Divers searching for oil industry workers on a capsized lift boat prepared to enter the overturned vessel on Friday

A California woman has said in a jailhouse interview that she drowned her three young children to protect them from alleged abuse by their father in the midst of a custody battle

The Biden administration says the U.S. is setting up a $1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave

The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by Cleveland police in 2014, is asking the Justice Department to reopen the case into his death after it was closed near the end of the Trump administration

Louisiana is making a full-court press to get shots in arms, with sometimes creative outreach to make it as easy as possible to get vaccinated

The Alaska Volcano Observatory reports a volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain has been emitting ash, prompting officials to raise the alert level

A white former Minnesota police officer has made her first court appearance in the traffic-stop shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright

Disturbing bodycam video shows a 13-year-old boy appearing to drop a handgun and begin raising his hands less than a second before a Chicago police officer shoots and kills him