Author: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY

Four people have been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of off-duty Chicago police officer Aréanah Preston, 24, police say.

The mass shooting that left eight people dead and seven injured at a Texas mall is the most recent in an acceleration of mass killings in the U.S.

The governor of Colorado on Friday signed four bills that aim to combat gun violence – the most recent state to take action this month.

In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched after Carolyn Bryant Donham accused him of whistling at her. She was never charged. She died Tuesday at age 88.

A man allegedly shot two adults and a child in North Carolina after their basketball rolled into his yard, according to local news outlets.

Despite historic reductions in U.S. incarcerations amid COVID-19, Black and Latino prison populations “sharply increased,” a new study found.

The Department of Justice announced charges against more than two dozen members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel in a fentanyl-trafficking investigation.

This Friday marks Vaisakhi, one of the most significant annual celebrations for Sikhs, who make up the fifth-largest major world religion.