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A powerful line of thunderstorms barreled through North Texas on Thursday, bringing golf-ball size hail and winds of up to 70 miles per hour that toppled power lines and damaged homes.A tornado...

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Twelve jurors began deliberating on Thursday afternoon over whether Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son, weighing the prominent South Carolina lawyer’s fate after listening to nearly six weeks...

Snow has engulfed mountainous regions of California in the past week, shutting down long stretches of roadways, closing Yosemite National Park and burying many communities.The extreme weather forced Yosemite to close on...

MEMPHIS — Steel bridges curving over calm water. Neon lights pulsing above blues clubs. A fiery sun melting into a bank of clouds.Through the lens of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old aspiring photographer...

CHICAGO — David O. Brown, the embattled superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, announced his resignation on Wednesday, on the heels of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s defeat in a mayoral race that was...

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that a foreign adversary is “very unlikely” to be responsible for the mysterious ailments known as Havana syndrome that American spies and diplomats have reported...

During the last decade of his life, Charley Hoblin lived alone on his catamaran, poking into backwater marinas along the Southeast coast. He would anchor offshore, coming in occasionally for a meal...

A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a brazen sidewalk killing of a man in St. Louis on Monday, the police said, an episode that a witness...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress sharply questioned senior Pentagon officials on Tuesday about the tens of billions of dollars in military and other aid the United States has sent to Ukraine, casting...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will make his debut appearances in three early presidential primary states in the next several weeks, according to two people briefed on his plans, selling his performance...