FORT WORTH, Texas — The 78th Tarrant County Jail inmate since Sheriff Bill Waybourn was elected in 2017 died on Thursday. The death is the 79th if you count the baby who was born in a jail cell and died 10 days later.

Mack Greer’s death was the third this week.

Greer, 49, was pronounced dead Thursday at John Peter Smith Hospital, but his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police Friday released body cam footage of an officer killing a woman’s pet dog in a case that has sparked outrage and questions.

Jameson, a 2-year-old Saint Bernard doodle, was fatally shot by police on Saturday after police responded to a report of a woman screaming in her apartment in the 7500 block of Jordan ...Read more

NEW YORK — A massive blaze engulfed a nearly 200-year-old church in Brooklyn on Friday, causing the steeple to collapse and injuring a firefighter, FDNY officials said.

The fire broke out around 1:20 p.m. at South Bushwick Reformed Church and quickly escalated to three alarms, a FDNY spokesperson said. Videos and photos on social media showed...Read more

Throughout the nearly four-month Iran war, few countries were more visibly at the center of the efforts to end it than Pakistan, an unlikely actor thrust into the spotlight by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was the first to announce in a social-media post this week that the U.S. and Iran had struck a truce now known ...Read more

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to offload its two warehouse properties in Pennsylvania and another in New Jersey — bought for a total of more than $336 million — that had been purchased to further support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

In total, ICE is planning to disown seven warehouses across the...Read more

A barrage of tornadoes has hit Illinois communities this year, bringing the tally to at least 140. Some have amounted to nothing more than a swirl of high winds and no reported damage. Many have collapsed homes, injured people and devastated crops in their wake.

Experts say this pace is not normal: Illinois experienced an average of 54 ...Read more

MIAMI — Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 19-year-old following an investigation into an alleged hate crime in northeast Miami-Dade County, officers say.

Amir Ayesh will be charged with two felonies, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office news release. The allegations follow a similar incident that resulted in the arrests of two men in...Read more

A federal judge in Washington denied former President Joe Biden’s request to block the Justice Department from turning over tapes and transcripts of interviews he privately recorded almost a decade ago to a conservative advocacy group, but will temporarily bar the release while he appeals.

The Justice Department is poised to produce the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The New York Knicks had just won the NBA championship Saturday night when Los Angeles police were called to an apartment complex in Canoga Park amid reports of a person screaming.

Minutes later, an officer opened fire on a pet Saint Bernard doodle that was wearing a Knicks shirt.

The death of Jameson has sparked outrage and ...Read more

A federal judge in Washington denied former President Joe Biden’s request to block the Justice Department from turning over tapes and transcripts of interviews he privately recorded almost a decade ago to a conservative advocacy group.

The Justice Department is poised to produce the materials to the Heritage Foundation. U.S. District Judge ...Read more

The Justice Department rebuffed a U.S. judge’s invitation for top officials to submit a signed statement under oath that a $1.8 billion fund for what the administration described as victims of political “weaponization” will not happen.

In a filing on Friday, the Justice Department said that such declarations were “unnecessary” and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Iran may have halted their conflict for now, but the messaging war has only just begun.

Both countries have cast the memorandum of understanding — signed by the two countries’ leaders on June 17 — as a victory for their side. Analysts suggest that Iran came out on top by securing new sanctions relief and funds ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The latest shelter-in-place order for residents around a burning cold-storage facility in Boyle Heights has been lifted, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced Friday.

The fire at the massive cold-storage facility at 1400 S. Los Palos St. broke out Wednesday afternoon. The fire is mostly in the solar-panel-covered roof area. ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday unveiled the Boeing Co. 747-8 that will serve as the new U.S. presidential jet, proclaiming the gifted plane from the Qatari government “virtually double the size” of the previous model.

“With the extraordinary devotion of many of you here today, this plane was transformed into a flying White House at a ...Read more

Iran delayed the start of negotiations over a permanent peace deal with the U.S. after fighting intensified in southern Lebanon, a potential setback to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war and curb Tehran’s nuclear program.

The talks, which were meant to take place in Switzerland on Friday, were pushed off because of those ...Read more

CHICAGO — The lines were many, the smiles countless and the pride after stepping foot on the campus of the Obama Presidential Center was priceless.

The word magnificent was uttered more than once.

Walkers and wheelchairs mingled with strollers and wagons where youth were carted around.

The feeling of community, brotherhood, and sisterhood ...Read more

Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki stripped his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the country’s highest state honor amid a row about commemorating fighters responsible for a World War II massacre.

The dispute started when Kyiv named a military unit after the Ukrainian nationalist fighters who killed an estimated 100,000 Poles, ...Read more