NeW YORK (AP) — A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime” has been shot and killed. Police say Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday in front of a residence in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn suffering […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two people have been killed and three have been wounded in shootings at four 7-Eleven locations in Southern California. Authorities said Monday that at least three of the four shootings are believed to be linked to the same lone gunman. The shootings appear to […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was “simply wrong” and “offensive.” U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sharply criticized Chauvin for his actions […]

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) 21-year-old Robert E. Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Authorities say the accused gunman used a rifle to spray bullets from atop a commercial building into a crowd that had gathered for the 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Ill. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court. The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and returning the individual states the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether. The decision has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has struck down a New York gun law in a ruling expected to directly impact half a dozen other populous states. The justices’ 6-3 decision is expected to allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — […]

Yellowstone National Park is celebrating its 150th anniversary as it faces its biggest challenge in decades. Floodwaters that tore through the park this week destroyed potentially hundreds of bridges, washed out miles of roads and drove out more than 10,000 visitors. The scope of the damage is still being tallied […]

Washington, DC (AP) . The House Jan 6 committee has heard testimony Jun 21, that Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election led to threats against local workers and state officials. The panel focused Tuesday on the election workers and officials who fended off the defeated president’s demands. […]