Joe Biden Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Be on Policy Panel

Joe Biden said Tuesday that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will serve on one of the policy task forces that his campaign is preparing to ...

Woman Falls Into Thermal Feature in Closed Yellowstone Park

(MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo.) — A woman illegally visited Yellowstone National Park while it’s closed during the coronavirus pandemic a...

‘These Voters Have Effectively Been Disenfranchised.’ Ohio Says 318 Ballots Arrived Too Late to Be Counted

(CINCINNATI) — Ohio elections officials say 318 voters in Butler County won’t have their ballots counted for the April 28 primary b...

Family of Guatemalan Woman Shot Dead by U.S. Border Patrol Sues

(LAREDO, Texas) — The family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman shot dead in 2018 by a U.S. Border Patrol agent filed a civil rights l...

Democrat National Committee Passes New Rules That Would Allow Virtual Convention

Democrats are making new moves toward a virtual presidential nominating convention this August, with a top party committee voting T...

Hong Kong Government Will Prioritize Bill to Make Booing China’s National Anthem Punishable by Prison

(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s government will give “priority” to a contentious bill that seeks to criminalize abuse of the Chinese nati...

New York City’s Coronavirus Official Death Toll May Have Missed Thousands of Cases, CDC Study Says

(NEW YORK) — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the tally kept by the city a...

Elon Musk Reopens California Tesla Plant in Defiance of Local Order to Stay Closed

Elon Musk restarted production at Tesla’s only U.S. car plant, flouting county officials who ordered the company to stay closed and...

Watch a Miami Crisis Hotline Worker Discuss How the City’s Most Vulnerable Residents Are Coping During COVID-19

The senior manager of a local Miami crisis hotline that serves the city’s most vulnerable residents says her organization is field...

Iranian Missile Accidentally Hits Iranian Ship During Exercise, Killing 19 Sailors

(TEHRAN, Iran) — An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, k...

Grammy-Winning Soul Singer Betty Wright Dies at Age 66

(MIAMI) — Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “W...

Soccer Star Alex Morgan Gives Birth to Baby Girl Just in Time for Mother’s Day

U.S. national soccer team star Alex Morgan has become a mom just in time for Mother’s Day. Morgan announced Saturday on social med...

Georgia Deputy Kills Man Who Allegedly Attacked Him With Rocks

(CLAXTON, Ga.) — A southeast Georgia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who threw rocks at him, state officials said. The Georgi...

Georgia Attorney General Asks for Federal Investigation of Ahmaud Arbery Case

(ATLANTA) — Georgia’s attorney general on Sunday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the killing of...

‘Craziness on a Daily Basis’: Michael Jordan’s White Sox Teammates Remember His 1994 Season

In late 1993, Chicago White Sox outfielder Michael Huff got a strange call from the team’s owner, Jerry Reinsdorf. “ He said, ‘We w...

Biden Accuser’s Lawyer Is Trump Donor With History of Representing Sexual Harassment Accusers

(WASHINGTON) — Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, is being represented ...

Southwest Airlines Flight Hits, Kills Man on Austin, Texas Airport Runway

(AUSTIN, Texas) — A man was struck and killed by a commercial jet landing on a runaway at an Austin, Texas, airport Thursday night, a...

Indianapolis Police Officer Shoots Man in Livestreamed Killing. Here’s What to Know

A 21-year-old black man was fatally shot by Indianapolis police on Wednesday evening in an altercation streamed live on Facebook. A...

Hydroxychloroquine Fails to Help Coronavirus Patients in Largest Study of the Drug to Date

In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine , scientists led by a team at Columbia University found that people inf...