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Ramadan falls on the ninth lunar month in the Islamic calendar and is believed to be the month in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad.

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning about dangerous counterfeit pills being sold at pharmacies in Mexico that often contain fentanyl.

TikTok is under fire as the Biden Administration pushes to ban the app nationwide. The app’s parent company Bytedance is Chinese-owned, and lawmakers fear the company could turn over users' data to the Chinese government.

A judge has sentenced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to life in prison a day after he was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son.

South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday entitled “Oversight of the Department of Justice,” featuring testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

An air ambulance company says all five people aboard one of its flights have been killed in a crash in Nevada.

Here are recently released statistics in four categories.

In the wake of a deadly shooting spree that left a woman, a 9-year-old and a television reporter dead in Central Florida, the Biden administration is criticizing Florida lawmakers for working to relax state gun laws.

Former President Jimmy Carter will receive hospice care at home instead of treatment at the hospital, according to a social media message from The Carter Center.

Police in El Paso, Texas, say a one person has been killed and three others have been wounded in a shooting at a shopping mall.

Concerns are mounting over the four objects that were shot down over North America in eight days.

The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated $747 million after no one beat the odds and won the top prize in Saturday night’s drawing.

Memphis police say two more officers involved in the arrest, beating and death of Tyre Nichols have been disciplined.

Authorities say three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a multi-million dollar short-term rental home in Los Angeles early Saturday.

The boy’s father was arrested Saturday after the video aired on a TV show called On Patrol Live.

A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian.

Police say a 19-year-old man was killed during a shooting at the Mall of America that sent frightened customers at the nation’s largest shopping center racing into a lockdown just before the holiday weekend.

There’s a safety alert for parents: The FBI is wanting about a growing trend of online extortion cases targeting teens.

Two Alabama women are preparing to stand trial in a city court where they're accused of committing misdemeanor violations by feeding and trapping stray cats.

Authorities have arrested a Kansas man in the 1980 shooting death of a 23-year-old neighbor after investigators who reexamined her death turned up new evidence.

An 18-year-old college student has been elected to serve as mayor of a small east Arkansas city, becoming one of the youngest people to serve as a city’s top leader in the U.S.

It's that time of year again, when Congress tends to rush to fund the government. This year, two major spending bills are hitting snags with the clock ticking.

Tens of thousands of people are bracing for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent.

A 27-year-old man who authorities suspect was involved in the killings of a Massachusetts couple has been arrested in Florida.

A 7-year-old Texas girl has been found dead two days after being reported missing, and a FedEx driver who made a delivery to her home shortly before she disappeared was arrested in her death.

A suspect is in custody after the shooting death of a Jackson State University student in Mississippi, the university's president said Friday.

A 10-year-old Milwaukee boy intentionally aimed a gun at his mother, then shot and killed her, because she would not buy him a virtual reality headset, prosecutors said.

Enrollment will open Jan. 1, 2023, and veterans will be able to complete their application online and receive instant decisions.

Concerns are mounting as a potential railroad strike could be here as soon a Dec. 9. Multiple railroad unions so far have rejected contract offers over issues like paid sick time and work schedules.

Police say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving 25 injured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons.

The families of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie have reached a $3 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after authorities concluded he strangled her during a cross-country trip in August 2021.

90% of counties in the United States suffered a weather-related disaster between 2011-2021, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Authorities said a University of Virginia student and former member of the school’s football team fatally shot three current players as they returned from a field trip.

Two historic aircraft have collided at an air show in Dallas.

A Rhode Island man who according to authorities forced multiple women with drug dependencies into prostitution and used violence and starvation to control them has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In a story published November 5, 2022, about a shooting that left five people dead, The Associated Press, relying on information from the sheriff's office, erroneously reported the spelling of a victim’s first name.

Residents in northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma began assessing damage and working to recover Saturday after tornadoes tore through the region.

Police say they have few leads in the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff dead outside a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley.

Police say they've found eight people dead in a burning house in Oklahoma in what they are investigating as a homicide case.

“My amazing husband started his day at 4:45 a.m. that morning and worked all day. Then drove straight to the arena to meet us and enjoy the game with our son! We are truly blessed with such an amazing man, and beyond thankful! We love our coal miner.”

Authorities say a 63-year-old worker died in the public bathroom of a South Carolina department store, but her body was not discovered for four days.

Firefighters have rescued a 13-year-old blind dog that fell into a hole at a California construction site.

A Texas sheriff is now investigating last week’s migrant flights, which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chartered to move immigrants from the southern border to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

A massive railroad strike could come as early as Friday.

A Tennessee judge has revoked bond for a man charged with killing a Memphis woman who was abducted during a pre-dawn run near a university campus.

Canadian police say the final suspect in the stabbing rampage in and around Canadian reserve has died after being arrested.

Veterans groups are hopeful Congress passes a bill that sends full disability pay to thousands of combat veterans

Ian Desmond, Gio Gonzalez and Jayson Werth are among the ex-Nationals scheduled to reunite for Zimmerman's number retirement ceremony next week.

David Smith is accused of spying for Russia whilst working at the British Embassy in Berlin.

Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro is facing a growing crisis: Dueling sessions of the newly elected Congress on Sunday elected different sets of leaders

Singapore’s top court has postponed the appeal hearing for a Malaysian man on death row believed to be mentally disabled, after he was diagnosed with COVID-19

The ruling concerns hundreds of thousands of immigrants with TPS who originally entered the U.S. unlawfully.