Texas lawmakers have passed a plan carried by Uvalde’s former mayor to fix police failures laid bare in the hesitant law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022.

The sheriff who oversees the New Orleans jail where 10 men escaped last week says defective locks were a key factor in the jailbreak.

Student activist Mohsen Mahdawi has attended his graduation from Columbia University, weeks after his release from federal custody.

A jury has found a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach not guilty of second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault after he spent decades asking hundreds of male student-athletes if they were “shy or not shy” before asking them to get naked so he could check their body fat.

The announcement that Joe Biden has prostate cancer is the latest example of how the final chapters of his political career have been shaped by the disease.

Jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial are hearing from a woman who has said her consensual relationship with the ex-movie mogul descended into rape in 2013.

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More than 12,000 chicks at a Delaware distribution center were found left in a USPS truck for more than three days.

A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Experts say planning before a tornado threatens is key for staying safe.

The Mexican navy tall ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge had departed less than 5 minutes before its masts crashed into the historic span.

An appeals court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees while a lawsuit plays out.

Authorities in Ohio say two women and a 5-year-old girl were killed after a train struck the family members on a railroad bridge.

New Jersey Transit’s train engineers have reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.

The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people.

Billionaire Warren Buffett plans to attend, but not take questions, at next year’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting — a big change following his recent surprise retirement announcement.

Officials have increased the reward for the capture of seven escaped New Orleans inmates.

A 25-year-old man believed to be responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic left behind “anti-pro-life” writings before carrying out the attack.

A Mexican navy sailing ship on a global goodwill tour struck the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, snapping its three masts, killing two crew members and leaving some sailors dangling from harnesses high in the air waiting for help.

A law enforcement official says the person believed responsible for an explosion at a California fertility clinic posted online ramblings including a belief that the world should not be populated.

Days after 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail by slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, six of them remain on the run.

Tim Walz has used a law school graduation speech to go after President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration will allow the sale of forced-reset triggers, which make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly.

The slang term at the center of a political firestorm around former FBI Director James Comey likely originated as food-service-industry jargon before extending to other uses.