Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the federal civil rights of two Black men.
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Police tied a decades-old gun shop in Indiana to hundreds of Chicago crimes. It’s shutting down.
Westforth Sports, a northern Indiana gun shop police have called a a key source of illicit guns in Chicago, is shutting down.
‘A hidden epidemic’: Gun suicides reached an all-time high in the US in 2022
Gun suicides reached an all-time high in 2022, and the gun suicide rate among Black teens surpassed that of white teens for the first time on record.
She did 28 years for murder. Now this wrongfully convicted woman is going after corrupt Chicago police
A woman who spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder she did not commit filed a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department.
Most violent crime is declining in the US after COVID-19 surge, while car thefts soar.
Most violent crimes are declining in American cities but remain at elevated levels compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report finds.
America’s red-hot summer: How people are coping with heat waves across the country
About 80 million people in the U.S., nearly a quarter of the population, may encounter extreme heat this week.
US on grim pace for gun violence, mass killings in 2023: ‘The bad year continues’
There have been dozens of mass killings in the United States in 2023, including an unusually high number of public mass shootings.
Gun violence statistics at historic highs ahead of Fourth of July holiday
This July 4th, the United States is seeing an acceleration of mass shootings, gunfire on school grounds, armed robberies, carjackings and road rage.
Titanic sub updates: Boeing denies it helped build sub, search for human remains may be moot
Recovery efforts were underway Friday after officials determined a “catastrophic implosion” killed the five people in a missing Titanic submersible.
Missing Titanic submersible live updates: ‘Debris field’ found in search zone
Earlier, the Coast Guard said two more remotely operated underwater vehicles had joined the search for the Titanic sub. Updates.