(BAKERSFIELD, Calif.) -- All 10 hostages have been released, and a suspect is confirmed dead on Wednesday after an hours-long standoff at a bank in California, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.The hostage situation ended at ab...

(SOUDERTON, Pa.) --  A volunteer firefighter has been arrested for allegedly setting fires and then responding to them with his fire department, according to officials in eastern Pennsylvania.Justin Sholly, a 29-year-old member of the Pers...

(VIRGINIA) -- Two Honduran immigrant children have been unlawfully detained at a youth facility in Virginia for more than 300 days, the American Civil Libert...

(WILDWOOD, N.J.) -- The search is ongoing for a 14-year-old boy who went missing in the ocean at the New Jersey shore, officials said.An officer in Wildwood was alerted to a swimmer in distress at about 1:26 p.m. Monday, local po...

(HOUSTON) -- A man and woman were found dead in a Houston apartment after an hours-long standoff with the sheriff's department, according to officials.A 20-year-old woman and the 23-year-old suspect were found dead in the apartment, Harris...

(NEWARK, N.J.) -- New Jersey officials are pursuing legal avenues to get to the bottom of allegations of poor conditions at Delaney Hall in Newark, including threatening to sue to shut down the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention f...

(LAS VEGAS) -- Prosecutors in Nevada said they're looking to try the teenage girl accused of stabbing three horses in adult court.Officers responded to a barn in Las Vegas early Saturday and found three horses "intentionally injured with a...

(MUSCATINE, Iowa) -- Six people were killed in a shooting spree at multiple locations across an Iowa city in an apparent domestic dispute, according to police.The suspected gunman died from a self‑inflicted gunshot wound as officers confr...

(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that Committee Chairman James Comer bring in acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel to answer questions "immediately" as part of the panel's probe i...

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal appeals court on Monday concluded that the Trump administration's transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional and "appears to be driven by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group."In a 2-1 dec...

(SHELBY, N.C.) -- A former North Carolina police officer who was seen in a viral doorbell camera video repeatedly punching a woman during an arrest has been charged with assault, authorities said.Former Shelby Police Officer Karson Hyder, 2...

(NEW YORK) -- The Federal Reserve is weathering a political “stress test” that threatens to undermine public trust in the central bank and damage the United States economy, former Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in recent remarks....

(NEW YORK) -- An American cruise ship passenger who has been quarantining at a Nebraska facility after being exposed to hantavirus said he plans to remain there for the full 42 days.Jake Rosmarin, who is from Boston, has been at Nebraska's...

(MOUNT AIRY, N.C.) -- A manhunt for the suspect who allegedly shot two Virginia sheriff's deputies, one fatally, ended Sunday night when law enforcement officers used a drone to zero in and capture him in North Carolina, authorities said.Mi...