Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges in the torture 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.
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.
Americans are fixating on Carlee Russell. What about other missing Black women?
The case of Alabama woman Carlee Russell captivated the nation this week and put a spotlight on missing Black women and girls in the United States.
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.
Thousands join walk in Highland Park, year after Fourth of July parade mass shooting
Thousands gathered in Highland Park for a remembrance ceremony and community walk Tuesday, one year after the shooting at a Fourth of July parade.
Year after mass shooting, Highland Park asks: What does freedom mean this Fourth of July?
A year since the mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, survivors grapple with the meaning of Independence Day.
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.