Breaking US news and top American headlines — from politics and crime to the viral stories sweeping the nation.
Greg Long is calling out a pricey city loophole that lets San Francisco homeowners privatize curb space for a few hundred dollars a month. Long, 56, a product designer living in Presidio Heights, posted video to social media showing 14…
Leticia Castillo has publicly acknowledged operating adult entertainment websites under the names “Silky Santana” and “Silky Smooth” during the 2000s. Castillo, 55, a Republican assemblywoman from Corona, made the admission in a statement to the California Post just weeks before…
Kavan Vishnubhai Patel, 32, now faces a murder charge after the 14-year-old boy he allegedly struck with his car died Saturday. Hunter Russey was taken off life support over the weekend, West Melbourne police announced, days after the Florida store…
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are set to unveil a $25 million whistleblower fund later Tuesday that pays tipsters as much as $30,000 each for information that secures federal fraud convictions. The Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, known as…
A Michigan mother is mourning one teenage daughter while keeping vigil at the hospital bedside of another after a predawn crash killed two students and left three others critically hurt. Jordyn Bigham, 15, and a 16-year-old student were pronounced dead…
Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy says the chain will not open on Sundays. Cathy, who took over as chief executive in 2021, told TODAY that the policy his great-grandfather established when founding the business in 1946 remains non-negotiable. The Atlanta-based company…
Kyle Kennedy, the granddaughter of Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, died last month at age 42. The educator and disability advocate passed away on Sept. 21 at her home in Westwood, Massachusetts, according to her obituary. She was…
Doctors amputated the leg of Australian lawmaker Helen Haines after a man deliberately rammed her with his car and reversed to strike her again in a small rural town north of Melbourne. Haines, an independent member of parliament, underwent…
A mother and her young son were found dead from gunshot wounds inside their Indianapolis apartment on Monday in what police are treating as a murder-suicide. Shatayvia Alisha Calderon, 33, and Julian Calderon, 9, were discovered in a condominium complex…
New Hampshire authorities have released a never-before-seen photograph of Tammy Little in a fresh push to crack her 1982 murder. The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit and the state Department of Justice unveiled the image on the 44th anniversary of…
Former Disney child star Erik Von Detten has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him of elder abuse and fraud. Norman Greenberg, 97, and his wife Sheila Greenberg, 85, filed suit against the “Princess Diaries” actor and Rosland Capital, the…
Five people were found shot dead in a suspected murder-suicide at a suburban Chicago home late Sunday. The bodies of three men and two women were discovered in several rooms of the residence in Mundelein, Illinois, a village where crime…
Shauntai Nickerson broke her silence the day after her son killed four people at his former elementary school. Nickerson, whose 16-year-old son Griffin J. John II carried out the deadly attack at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, last Thursday,…
Jarmon Mattix’s sister is demanding answers after the 36-year-old father of three was gunned down in a softball field parking lot in Humble, Texas, on Sunday. The Harris County homicide detective sergeant, Sidney Miller, told reporters that a dispute erupted…
Katie McDevitt was booked into jail last Thursday on felony charges for grooming a 15-year-old softball player she coached, authorities said. McDevitt, 28, allegedly targeted the teen while coaching her on the Georgia Strike softball team in Walton County, sending…
Halle Berry’s daughter Nahla is expected to testify virtually in the actress’s explosive custody battle with ex-husband Olivier Martinez. Berry, 60, and Martinez, 60, both appeared Monday at Los Angeles County Superior Court for a hearing that stretched across the…