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Crews tried to beat back two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes even as another round of dangerous fire weather raises the risk for flames erupting across the state.

Sam Gordon’s staggering football skills made her famous at age 9. But they didn’t make her fully welcome on the field.

Workers from the Washington State Department of Agriculture managed to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the U.S. without suffering any stings or other injuries, the agency said Monday.

Two sisters are facing charges after prosecutors said they stabbed a store employee 27 times after being told to wear a mask inside a Chicago store.

A Black woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Chicago said Tuesday that officers did nothing more than cover her boyfriend with a blanket after he was shot and left him on the ground to die.

The U.S. Marshals Service Offices in Southern Ohio and Southern West Virginia office announced that 45 missing children have been recovered during the month of October as part of an anti-human trafficking operation.

Louisiana braced Wednesday for what is expected to be its third hurricane strike this year as Zeta, the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season.

A 6-year-old boy from Tennessee is inspiring his peers to expand their outlook of what they can achieve with a new take on the ABCs.

A 7-year-old child and bus driver were killed in a crash involving a school bus in Meigs County Tuesday afternoon, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

A Phoenix police officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly sending a credible threat to Mayor Kate Gallego.

The family of a man who died in police custody in Austin last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Texas county.

As the month of October comes to a close, the United States is hitting its highest seven-day average for virus cases since the beginning of the pandemic. With this spike comes hospital scarcity and patients searching far and wide for answers.

Louisiana braced Wednesday for what is expected to be its third hurricane strike this year as Zeta, the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season.

When you think Florida, you might picture a beautiful blue ocean, or orangey-red sunsets. But when it comes to elections, purple is the color political scientists often call the swing state. It is a battleground that is almost always close in presidential elections.

Newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the court weighs election disputes and prepares to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

An election year tradition in upstate New York will unfold a bit differently than in years past.

A 30-day operation resulted in 98 arrests, including five gang members and three people accused of murder as well as the recovery of three missing children from California, according to U.S. Marshals.

Unrest continues Tuesday night as crowds protest the death of Walter Wallace.