US & World

Just when you thought you were ready for a soft return to public life, this happens: An unruly plane passenger commandeers an intercom. A grocery…

Space is hard — and no one understands that better than astronauts. After facing “technical delays” during a spacewalk on…

A Michigan police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old woman Saturday after police said she shot at the officer near a Juneteenth parade, officials…

One person was killed and at least five others were wounded in a shooting Saturday evening near Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, according to…

It all began with a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in 2013. That’s the year Eric Reed got his father, Ted Reed, and his father-in-law, Bob Caldwell,…

More than 60 years ago, Marion Gerald Hood was rejected from a medical school because of his race. This week, the school apologized. The Emory…

Maya Nepos had only a few days left before graduating from college at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, when she realized she had $600…

A 2-year-old was killed and three others — including a 9-year-old — were wounded in two separate shootings on freeways in Detroit…

Three people died and multiple people were injured when an SUV hit a transit bus head-on in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The three people who…

A team of Portland Police Bureau officers that responded to the city’s violent summer of protests has disbanded because of what their union…

A baby born weighing less than a pound has beaten the odds and celebrated his first birthday, becoming the most premature baby to survive, according…

The Air Force’s Thunderbirds honored a man Friday who jumped into an Ocean City, Maryland, bay last month to save a toddler. Jonathan Bauer was…

Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are searching for the suspects involved in an early Saturday mass shooting that left two people dead and four…

It was a quick turnaround for federal employers to recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday. But some cities were ready with new statues…

Minneapolis police say they have identified a man whose remains were found in separate locations in the city this week. Remains of Adam Richard…

Scientists are explorers of the unknown, seeking to understand the world as it exists now and millions of years ago. It’s a complicated…

The search was continuing Saturday for a hiker missing since June 8 in the Grand Teton National Park, the National Parks Service said. Investigators…

Juneteenth is the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. African Americans and others mark the anniversary much like the Fourth of July,…

A student in Arizona was arrested after threatening to kill some of their medical school classmates and bomb the school campus, the Glendale Police…