Chicago police officers from a tactical unit who fired their guns nearly 100 times during a 2024 traffic stop that killed a 26-year-old man won't face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday. "The decision is not reached lightly nor does it diminish the traged...

Illinois law now requires that prospective police officers approve the release of personal background records in response to last summer's shooting of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman, in her home by a sheriff's deputy who had responded to her call for help. Gov. JB Prit...

U.S. inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving overall prices modestly higher than a year ago. Consumer prices rose 2.7% in July from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Tuesday, th...

A disruption to a system housing United Airlines' flight information that caused more than 1,000 delays has been resolved, but delays continued into Thursday. The impacted system, called Unimatic, houses flight information that is fed to other systems including those that ca...

Update: The Army's Fort Stewart in Georgia says five soldiers were shot and the base was locked down due to an active shooter. A spokesperson says parts of the Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia were locked down Wednesday after an active shooter was reported on the sprawling ...

The nation's two most populous states - California and Texas - grappled for political advantage in advance of 2026 elections that could reorder the balance of power in Washington and threaten President Donald Trump's agenda at the midpoint of his second term. In Texas, Democ...