Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers
Closing arguments delivered in trial of 3 officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Tuesday in the trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023
Justice Department plans to investigate prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation of the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county after its leader directed her staff to consider racial disparities as one factor when negotiating plea deals
A fiery highway crash in eastern Kansas kills 8 people
Authorities say eight people died when two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas
Federal judge says results of North Carolina court race with Democrat ahead must be certified
A federal judge has ruled that disputed ballots in the still unresolved 2024 race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat must remain in the final count
Chester town official shot a lost DoorDash driver seeking directions, NY police say
A town official in upstate New York has been arrested after state police say he shot and wounded a delivery driver who got lost and approached his house seeking directions
LA firefighters union heads suspended, audit finds $800,000 in undocumented spending
Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union have been suspended
Rescue crews search for missing girl lost in Texas floodwaters while forecasters warn of more storms
Rescue crews in Texas are searching for a 10-year-old girl swept away by rapidly rising floodwaters and forecasters warn that more heavy rains and flooding could be on the way to the Houston area and the state’s coast
How old are we really? What a test can tell us about our biological age – podcast
Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific...
Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study
Survey of 164 primates in Rwanda shows how impact of being close to others is affected by group size and sex Human friendship groups are complex – and often fraught – but a study of mountain gorillas has found that their societies can also be head-scratchingly complicated. The study, which...