U.S. & World

An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a fellow officer has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. That matches the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. Former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson didn’t speak in court Thursday before U.S. District Judge...

Georgia law makes it nearly impossible for festival organizers to stop people from carrying guns among the alcohol-fueled crowds.

A Connecticut judge is trying to determine if Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis, who is representing the InfoWars host in the defamation case here, along with his Texas attorney should face disciplinary action.

Anne Heche, 53, has suffered an “anoxic” brain injury and isn’t expected to survive, a family spokesperson said Thursday. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable,” the spokesperson said in a statement on behalf of her friends and family. The...

Two roller coaster trains crashed into each other Thursday at an amusement park in southern Germany, injuring at least 34 people, two of them severely, German media reported. One roller coaster train braked heavily and another train collided with it at the Legoland park in Guenzburg, the German news agency dpa reported. Three helicopters were deplo...

A Brazilian woman has been arrested on allegations she was part of a bizarre scheme to defraud her 82-year-old mother out of more than $100 million worth of art work by soliciting “psychics” who claimed the paintings were cursed, authorities in Rio de Janeiro said.

The CDC recommendations apply to everyone in the U.S., but the changes could be particularly important for schools, which resume classes this month in many parts of the country.

Video of the Texas gubernatorial candidate’s exchange at a town hall in rural Mineral Wells drew millions of views on social media.

The armed man who tried to breach a security screening area at the FBI’s field office in Cincinnati on Thursday was killed during an hours-long standoff with law enforcement.

Authorities in Northern California released a frame from surveillance video showing a missing 16-year-old at a store before she disappeared over the weekend and asked Wednesday for anyone with information to contact officials, saying they are not getting any new leads.

Capturing a home intruder is all in a day’s work for law enforcement. But when the break-in involves a feathered suspect, it can be a very fowl case.

A woman was rescued from her vehicle after it was swallowed by a surprise sinkhole in El Paso Tuesday evening and it was all caught on camera.

Investigators believe long-missing New Hampshire girl Harmony Montgomery was killed and are treating her death as a homicide, authorities said Thursday.