Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.

A U.S. national park comprising a cluster of uninhabited islands in the Florida Keys has been closed after 300 migrants made 10 landings there over the weekend.

A suspected gas explosion a few hours into the new year demolished two Philadelphia row homes and sent several people to the hospital.

The Illinois Supreme Court has halted provisions of a new law that would eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants, issuing a stay hours before the new policies were set to take effect Sunday.

Officials are investigating a fatal police shooting in a Olathe, Kansas, on New Year’s Eve.

Police say one person has been killed and nine hurt in a shooting a few blocks away from where thousands were in the streets for a New Year’s Eve party in downtown Mobile, Alabama.

A member of an airline ground crew working at an Alabama airport died Saturday afternoon in an accident at the facility.

Authorities say a man wielding a machete attacked three police officers at the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City, striking two of them in the head before an officer shot the man in the shoulder.