An early-morning shooting Monday at a gathering in Harlem left a star college basketball player dead and eight other people wounded, New York City police said. Officers responded about 12:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting on a footpath along the FDR Drive and found five people shot, police said, …

Washington — A California man who was allegedly armed with a gun, knife and various tools when he was arrested in the early morning near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland has been charged with attempted murder, federal officials said in court papers filed Wednesday. The man was detained around …

An Arizona man alleged this week that he was wrongly jailed for 17 days after American Airlines falsely identified him as a burglary suspect to police. In his lawsuit, passenger Michael Lowe said he endured more than two weeks of an “unending nightmare” in a New Mexico jail as a …

Two days after 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in a Texas elementary school on May 24, an investment banking firm sent a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton promising not to “discriminate” against the firearms industry. The firm, Chicago-based Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC, is the most …

Rapper Master P announced the death of his 29-year-old daughter Tytyana Miller in a social media post on Monday.  Master P, whose real name is Percy Robert Miller, shared on Instagram that the family experiencing “overwhelming grief.” He did not disclose her cause of death, but revealed she was struggling …

New York residents will now have the option to choose “X” as their gender marker on their state-issued IDs, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Friday. The change applies to driver’s licenses, learner permits and non-driver IDs. The new policy was rolled out just days before the start of Pride Month and …

A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Vyvianna Quinonez was also ordered Tuesday by the federal judge in San Diego to pay nearly $26,000 in restitution and a $7,500 …

A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and seven others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Chicago late Thursday night. Police said it happened just after 10:40 p.m. outside a McDonald’s a few blocks from the city’s Magnificent Mile shopping district. One of the eatery’s windows …

Stocks closed lower on Thursday, one day after the Dow Index suffered a 1,100-point rout. Investors remained jittery amid continuing fears that high inflation is chilling consumer spending and crimping corporate profits.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 236 points, or 0.7%, closing at 31,253. The S&P 500 dropped 0.6% …

The U.S. Air Force announced Monday it had successfully conducted a hypersonic weapon test.  In a release, the Air Force said a B-52H Stratofortress launched an Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) off the coast of Southern California Saturday. After separating from the aircraft, the weapon’s booster ignited and burned for …