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Minnesota mayor blasts police tactics to control protesters

Elected leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright want officers to scale back their ...

Coast Guard: 2 more capsize victims recovered off Louisiana

Divers searching the site of a capsized lift boat off Louisiana recovered two more unresponsive crewmembers late Friday, the ...

51 West Point cadets caught cheating must repeat a year

Most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being ...

Harris planning first trip abroad to Mexico, Guatemala

Vice President Kamala Harris announced plans Wednesday to visit Mexico and Guatemala on what would be her first official trip ...

Stinging report raises new questions about Capitol security

Shields that shattered upon impact. Weapons too old to use. Missed intelligence in which future insurrectionists warned, “We ...

Probe faults DC Guard use of aircraft during June protests

Members of the Washington D.C. National Guard lacked clear guidance and didn't fully understand how to appropriately use ...

Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala deploy troops to lower migration

The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala to temporarily surge security forces to ...

Police: Minnesota officer meant to draw Taser, not handgun

The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a ...

Biden picks 2 Trump critics for border, immigration roles

President Joe Biden on Monday nominated two critics of Trump-era immigration policies for key roles at the Department of ...

Royal Salute with guns fired across the UK

Gun salutes across the U.K. marked the death of Britain’s Prince Philip on Saturday as military leaders honored the former ...

US to keep migrant families in hotels as amid rush for space

Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.

EXPLAINER: What is behind the latest unrest in N Ireland?

Young people have hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and set hijacked cars and a bus on fire during a week ...

Policy changes help drive US migrant crossings to new highs

Paying a smuggler, Edgar Mejia could afford to take only one child with him to the United States. He chose his 3-year-old ...

US reports record surge of migrant children

U.S. authorities picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest ...

Biden seems ready to extend US troop presence in Afghanistan

Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a ...

EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?

Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at the Mexican border in March, smashing previous highs set during ...

Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March

The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said ...

Medic who shot 2 was assigned to medical research center

A Navy medic who shot and wounded two U.S. sailors before he was killed by police on a nearby Army base was a laboratory ...

Turkish aerobatic jet crashes during training; pilot killed

A Turkish Air Force aerobatic jet crashed in central Turkey on Wednesday, killing its pilot, Turkey’s defense ministry said.

Marines open another probe into sunken tank blamed on errors

The Marine Corps has launched a probe looking at the readiness of its troops before they participated in an exercise that ...