Records obtained by The Associated Press show a Memphis police officer who hit Tyre Nichols with a stun gun during a traffic stop that preceded Nichols’ brutal beating by other officers had a prior record of minor reprimands.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have pushed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors through the Senate.

The lawyer for an Arizona rancher being held on $1 million bond in the fatal shooting of a Mexican on his border property says her client did not shoot the man.

A key prosecution witness has testified that he delivered millions of dollars in payoffs destined for former Mexican public safety chief Genaro García Luna and saw him leave with the bags of cash.

The downing of three unknown aerial objects in as many days by U.S. fighter jets has prompted wild speculation about what they were and where they came from.

The United Nations says Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment fon millions of earthquake victims.

Family members of a Black man who was killed as he tried to flee police in Louisiana have filed a $10 million lawsuit against the officer who shot him.

The nephew of imprisoned Utah polygamous leader Warren Jeffs, accused nearly two months ago of kidnapping his 10-year-old niece, has been captured and is jailed in North Dakota.

Authorities say a Florida man is accused of fatally shooting a clerk at a hotel in western Kentucky after assaulting two people outside the business who couldn’t give him a cigarette lighter.

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has announced plans to use a portion of its $98 million in opioid settlement funds to construct a new treatment center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.