Highland Park shooting: Biden orders flags flown at half-staff

President Joe Biden tweeted on Monday calling the mass shooting “senseless” and said he has not given up “fighting the epidemic on gun violence.”

Kevin Fowler visits fan who survived Uvalde school shooting at Texas hospital

“They told us that she’s a big KF fan and her family had planned to come see us play this weekend before the shooting occurred. She was very sad that they couldn’t attend the show.”

Man accused of stalking Taylor Swift at two NYC properties

Police say 35-year-old Joshua Christian entered two residential buildings linked to Taylor Swift and "made threats on an intercom" at one of them.

1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found in Mississippi courthouse basement, family seeks arrest

A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping.

R. Kelly and Aaliyah: A look at an illegitimate marriage

Part of the case against R. Kelly involved details about his marriage to then-15-year-old singer Aaliyah, who later died in a 2001 plane crash.

Uvalde mother who got out of cuffs to rescue kids from shooting is now being harassed by police, lawyer says

A Uvalde mother who was handcuffed as she tried to run by police outside Robb Elementary School, but eventually got free and rescued her kids, is now being harassed by police after speaking out about the ordeal, her lawyer said this week. 

Biden signs landmark, bipartisan gun violence bill: 'Lives will be saved'

The legislation will toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.

Mother of good Samaritan, misidentified and killed by police, files lawsuit

Johnny Hurley was shot and killed after an officer mistook him for an active shooter not knowing he was actually saving lives, according to a lawsuit filed in Colorado.

Uvalde school shooting: Officer whose wife was shot was disarmed and 'escorted' away, Texas DPS chief says

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw ripped into the Uvalde school police chief's handling of last month's shooting at Robb Elementary School and said that some officers wanted to approach the gunman earlier, including a school district police officer whose wife was killed in the massacre. 

Uvalde timeline: DPS releases activity log, police chatter as they waited outside classroom of massacre

The Uvalde school shooting timeline shows it took 74 minutes from when police went into the school to the time they confronted and killed the gunman. Throughout that time, unknown officers are reported rejecting DPS Special Agents' calls to go into the classroom, saying, "Don't you think we should have a supervisor approve that?"

Infamous Alcatraz prison escapees shown in new age-progressed photos

There’s still speculation as to whether brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris survived one of the most famous and elaborate prison breaks in U.S. history.

Senators have agreement on gun violence bill, lead Dem says

Senators have moved to the brink of an agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill, meaning a vote could happen later this week.