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Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story
Read full article: Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different storyPresident Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities as a way to fight crime.
New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with memorials and brass band parade
Read full article: New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with memorials and brass band paradeNew Orleans is set to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast.
Parents of students killed in Minneapolis church shooting share emotional pleas
Read full article: Parents of students killed in Minneapolis church shooting share emotional pleasThe parents of two schoolchildren fatally shot in a Minneapolis church have spoken out, urging the community to address the root causes of school shootings.
Trump proposed getting rid of FEMA, but his review council seems focused on reforming the agency
Read full article: Trump proposed getting rid of FEMA, but his review council seems focused on reforming the agencyPresident Donald Trump has floated the idea of “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which manages federal disaster response.
Families of Bryan Kohberger's murder victims ask an Idaho judge to block graphic crime scene photos
Read full article: Families of Bryan Kohberger's murder victims ask an Idaho judge to block graphic crime scene photosThe families of two of the four murdered University of Idaho students have asked a judge to prevent the release of graphic crime scene photos and videos, saying the images are traumatizing and violate their privacy.
DC man seen throwing sandwich at agent charged with misdemeanor after grand jury declines indictment
Read full article: DC man seen throwing sandwich at agent charged with misdemeanor after grand jury declines indictmentA man captured on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington has been charged with a misdemeanor after prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to return a more serious felony indictment, according to court papers filed Thursday.
New trial ordered for 3 Memphis ex-officers in connection with the beating death of Tyre Nichols
Read full article: New trial ordered for 3 Memphis ex-officers in connection with the beating death of Tyre NicholsA judge has ordered a new trial for three former Memphis police officers who were convicted of federal charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
US Education Department says Denver school's all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX
Read full article: US Education Department says Denver school's all-gender bathrooms violate Title IXThe U.S. Education Department says Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from removing Voice of America director
Read full article: Federal judge blocks Trump administration from removing Voice of America directorA federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from removing Michael Abramowitz as director of Voice of America.
Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election
Read full article: Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins electionThe first Black mayor of an Alabama town has won election by a landslide, four years after he ran unopposed and white residents locked him out of the town hall.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution to stop printing as it transitions to all-digital news
Read full article: Atlanta Journal-Constitution to stop printing as it transitions to all-digital newsThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop printing at year's end, making Atlanta the largest U.S. metro area without a printed major newspaper.
What polling shows about Trump's pivot from immigration to crime
Read full article: What polling shows about Trump's pivot from immigration to crimeA new analysis by The Associated Press shows President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington and other big cities came as views of his handling of immigration had been souring.
Florida may lose $218M on empty 'Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown
Read full article: Florida may lose $218M on empty 'Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdownFlorida could be on the hook for the $218 million cost of converting an airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center that may soon be empty of detainees.
Gun used in Emmett Till's lynching is displayed in a museum 70 years after his murder
Read full article: Gun used in Emmett Till's lynching is displayed in a museum 70 years after his murderThe gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing.
A look into the Bleak House auction items Guillermo del Toro had the hardest time letting go of
Read full article: A look into the Bleak House auction items Guillermo del Toro had the hardest time letting go ofGuillermo del Toro has made his mark in horror and built a hefty memorabilia collection along the way.
Guillermo del Toro almost lost his movie memorabilia in a wildfire. Now, he's letting some of it go
Read full article: Guillermo del Toro almost lost his movie memorabilia in a wildfire. Now, he's letting some of it goGuillermo del Toro rose to fame creating horror movies that will likely help shape the genre for generations to come.
Massachusetts cranberry bogs are being given a second life as vibrant wetlands
Read full article: Massachusetts cranberry bogs are being given a second life as vibrant wetlandsA growing number of cranberry bogs in Massachusetts are being converted back to nature as farmers get out of the business.
Police say Minneapolis church shooter was filled with hatred and admired mass killers
Read full article: Police say Minneapolis church shooter was filled with hatred and admired mass killersInvestigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children.
Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades
Read full article: Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in EvergladesThey look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.
Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire
Read full article: Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfireThe pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a prayer on their third day of the new school year.
Al Sharpton leads pro-DEI 'March on Wall Street' on anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington
Read full article: Al Sharpton leads pro-DEI 'March on Wall Street' on anniversary of the 1963 March on WashingtonThe Rev. Al Sharpton led a protest through Manhattan's Financial District to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s campaign to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Man convicted of triple murder put to death in record 11th execution in Florida this year
Read full article: Man convicted of triple murder put to death in record 11th execution in Florida this yearA man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him money has been put to death in Florida.
Guard not needed in Chicago, Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claims
Read full article: Guard not needed in Chicago, Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claimsIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime.
What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 18 in Minneapolis
Read full article: What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 18 in MinneapolisThe shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school’s church was quiet, often alone and seemed to resent school as an eighth grader there seven years ago.
Jury awards more than $2 million to protester shot in face with nonlethal projectile
Read full article: Jury awards more than $2 million to protester shot in face with nonlethal projectileA jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.
Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights Act
Read full article: Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights ActLouisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
NTSB focused on controllers after B-52 bomber and two planes nearly collided over North Dakota
Read full article: NTSB focused on controllers after B-52 bomber and two planes nearly collided over North DakotaThe National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport.
Amish woman accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake
Read full article: Amish woman accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lakeAn Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith.
Georgia's Fulton County fined $10,000 a day for not appointing Republican election board nominees
Read full article: Georgia's Fulton County fined $10,000 a day for not appointing Republican election board nomineesA judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board.
Online age checks are proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedom
Read full article: Online age checks are proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedomOnline age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13.
Pro-DEI organizers fired up to maintain Target boycott as promises go unfulfilled
Read full article: Pro-DEI organizers fired up to maintain Target boycott as promises go unfulfilledWhen Target announced its current chief executive officer was stepping down, organizers of a months-long consumer boycott took it as a hopeful sign and stressed that their actions will continue as long as promises go unfulfilled.
Uvalde school didn't release most of its shooting-related documents but says it was a mistake
Read full article: Uvalde school didn't release most of its shooting-related documents but says it was a mistakeThe Uvalde school district released only a small fraction of the documents it said would be made public related to the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre.
A Mississippi city's tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm?
Read full article: A Mississippi city's tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm?A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront.
Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows
Read full article: Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email showsA top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration fights a federal judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by a late October deadline.
Minneapolis police say a shooting at a Catholic school has left three dead, including the shooter, and 17 injured
Read full article: Minneapolis police say a shooting at a Catholic school has left three dead, including the shooter, and 17 injuredAuthorities say a shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Minneapolis Catholic church and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school.
Democrat Catelin Drey's victory in Iowa special election breaks GOP supermajority
Read full article: Democrat Catelin Drey's victory in Iowa special election breaks GOP supermajorityDemocrat Catelin Drey has won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that previously leaned Republican.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum in the US, hoping to prevent his deportation to Uganda
Read full article: Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum in the US, hoping to prevent his deportation to UgandaLawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, say he wants to seek asylum in the United States.
Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state's deadlines for removal loom
Read full article: Florida cities race to save rainbow crosswalks as the state's deadlines for removal loomFort Lauderdale city leaders have decided to fight the state of Florida’s order to remove rainbow-colored street art, potentially risking millions of dollars in funding.
Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak
Read full article: Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from AmtrakPresident Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington's Union Station from Amtrak, marking another federal intervention in the nation's capital.
US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates say
Read full article: US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates sayAs Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to track the planes used to carry shackled people across the country and around the world.
Microsoft protesters occupy president's office as company reviews its work with Israel's military
Read full article: Microsoft protesters occupy president's office as company reviews its work with Israel's militaryPolice have arrested seven people after they occupied an office at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.
Cracker Barrel is keeping its old-time logo after new design elicited an uproar
Read full article: Cracker Barrel is keeping its old-time logo after new design elicited an uproarCracker Barrel said late Tuesday it’s returning to its old logo after critics — including President Donald Trump — protested the company’s plan to modernize.
Katy Perry testifies that she's seeking 'justice' at trial over $15 million mansion
Read full article: Katy Perry testifies that she's seeking 'justice' at trial over $15 million mansionKaty Perry has testified during a Los Angeles trial that she's seeking justice in a legal battle over a California mansion.
Texas election map for 2026 is racially biased, voting-rights advocates say in lawsuit
Read full article: Texas election map for 2026 is racially biased, voting-rights advocates say in lawsuitVoting-rights advocates are suing to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor Republicans in 2026 midterm elections, saying the map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters.
Hit the road safely: Bridgestone’s ‘Teens Drive Smart’ offers free tips to teen drivers
Read full article: Hit the road safely: Bridgestone’s ‘Teens Drive Smart’ offers free tips to teen driversOn Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, Bridgestone debuted its free “Teens Drive Smart” driving experience at NRG Stadium, offering classroom instruction and hands‑on exercises intended to teach Houston‑area teens defensive driving and safer decision‑making behind the wheel.
Utah enters the redistricting battle for 2026, but not by choice. Here's what to know
Read full article: Utah enters the redistricting battle for 2026, but not by choice. Here's what to knowUtah is the latest state at the center of a national redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Wisconsin missing kayaker who faked his own death is sentenced to 89 days in jail
Read full article: Wisconsin missing kayaker who faked his own death is sentenced to 89 days in jailA Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 89 days in jail for faking his own drowning to meet a woman in the country of Georgia.
What to know about massive dust storms called haboobs in the US Southwest
Read full article: What to know about massive dust storms called haboobs in the US SouthwestMassive walls of dust and debris called haboobs that roll through the U.S. Southwest can be awe-inspiring and terrifying, especially for motorists caught in their path.