Authorities say 12 people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, early Sunday.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is the second Cabinet member heading to Africa as part of President Joe Biden’s big push to engage with the world’s second-largest continent.

Dozens of police officers have responded to reports of a shooting that occurred shortly after a large Lunar New Year celebration had ended in a community east of Los Angeles.

Unusually cold weather is expected to continue across most of the Southwest into next week from the Sierra to New Mexico.

Authorities and news reports say a peaceful protest against the planned construction of a police department training center in an Atlanta suburb has turned violent on its fringes.

Authorities are piecing together how five inmates escaped from a Missouri jail.

Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, who was one of the first people to walk on the moon, has married his “longtime love” in a small ceremony in Los Angeles.

New York City’s latest weapon in its fight against street noise is a traffic camera equipped with a sound meter.

An Afghan soldier seeking asylum in the U.S. has been jailed at an immigrant detention center in Texas since he was arrested trying to cross the Mexico border.

Officials say five Memphis Police Department officers have been fired for excessive use of force, failure to intervene and failure to render aid — stemming from an arrest during a traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital.