A new wave of lockdowns and business closings is sweeping across France, Germany and other places in Europe as surging coronavirus infections there and in the U.S. wipe out months of progress against the scourge on two continents

The police commissioner in Philadelphia says her department will release 911 tapes and footage from police body cameras “in the near future” in the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a briefing Wednesday that officials will do so after talking with Wallace’s relatives to prepare them

Lawyers for two Black people who were shot by suburban Chicago police say police video shows their bullet-riddled car but not the shooting and that some of what was released suggests the officer who opened fire was scrambling to justify his actions

The federal government has agreed not to deport three immigrant activists in Vermont who sued two years ago after they were arrested

An Austin real estate developer at the center of recent allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked investigators to probe an elaborate conspiracy this fall

The federal government has announced plans to lift restrictions on building roads and logging in a pristine rainforest in Alaska that provides habitat for wolves, bears and salmon

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, say at least seven people who attended an airport rally for President Donald Trump were taken to hospitals

An Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a journalist for The New York Times and two other men in Afghanistan

Calmer weather is helping Southern California firefighters beat back two wildfires that drove nearly 100,000 people from their homes amid fierce winds and extremely dry conditions

President Donald Trump’s vast reshaping of U.S. immigration policy may be most widely felt in his undoing of asylum

Football star Russell Wilson and his wife Ciara, the Grammy-winning performer, are the latest wealthy philanthropists to back a charter school

Get-out-the-vote efforts targeting Black men aren’t just about persuading them to choose former Vice President Joe Biden over incumbent Donald Trump

A St. Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home will be in court Wednesday asking a judge to remove the city’s top prosecutor from the case

Talu Massey is among the millions of Americans who voted before Nov. 3, resulting in record-breaking early turnout

The Tennessee Highway Patrol says a school bus crashed head-on into a utility vehicle, killing a 7-year-old girl and her driver and injuring others