MINNEAPOLIS -- The three other Minneapolis police officers at the scene of George Floyd's death will face charges of aiding and abetting murder, the Minnesota attorney general is set to announce Wednesday, according to reports and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

State Attorney General Keith Ellison is expected to also elevate charges against former...Read more

An anti-malaria drug that has been trumpeted as a therapy for COVID-19 was unable in a University of Minnesota clinical trial to prevent the onset of the infectious disease.

The results of the nation's first randomized trial with the drug, hydroxychloroquine, against COVID-19 will disappoint doctors who had hoped for new therapies against the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Florida is moving to Phase 2 of reopening after the new coronavirus lockdown, with a reopening of movie theaters, bars and bowling alleys. But again, South Florida is excluded.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that bars with outdoor seating would open Friday. So will movie theaters and bowling alleys, ...Read more

MIAMI -- Florida's Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed 1,317 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state's total to more than 58,000. The state now has 58,764 confirmed cases of the disease.

Wednesday's daily total of newly confirmed cases is the highest the state has seen since April 17 when 1,413 cases were added. There were also...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom gave California counties permission on Wednesday to limit their in-person voting operations for the Nov. 3 election as protection against the spread of the coronavirus -- but only if they also offer three days of early voting, a tradeoff some local officials said could be expensive and challenging.

The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Attorney General Keith Ellison plans to elevate charges against the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck while adding charges of aiding and abetting murder against the other three officers at the scene, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the case.

Ellison is expected to ...Read more

SINGAPORE -- The footage is stomach-churning: a half-dozen uniformed officers holding a man face down for several minutes as he gulps for air and screams, again and again, "I can't breathe." He falls unconscious and is pronounced dead a short time later.

The video is not of George Floyd, the black man who gasped those words as a white ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- After six coronavirus-related deaths over the past eight days, Butner officials have ordered mass testing for all inmates at a low-security prison in the federal correctional complex, according to an email obtained by The News & Observer.

Butner Warden Thomas Scarantino said in the email that the testing would take place ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A child has died after being accidentally shot on Monday, Kentucky State Police said.

Jeremiah Fox, a 9-year-old Beattyville resident, was flown to University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center after he was accidentally shot while target practicing with friends and family, police said. He died in the emergency room, according...Read more

Joe Biden further widened his lead over President Donald Trump as unrest gripped much of the country, up 11 percentage points over the incumbent in the latest Monmouth University poll.

The poll found that registered voters favored Biden 52% to Trump's 41%. Last month Biden led Trump 50% to 41% and in April, 48% to 44%.

"The race continues to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- High-end sneakers and other luxury goods have been targets of choice for thieves amid the unrest in cities across the nation on recent nights, as small groups of troublemakers took advantage of mostly peaceful demonstrations protesting the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, while in Minneapolis police custody.

But those...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein oversaw the Russia investigation for two years, pushing back on White House criticism and declaring it wasn't the "witch hunt" that President Donald Trump had claimed.

Rosenstein, who appointed Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel in 2017 and supervised his work, is scheduled to ...Read more

Joe Biden's political resurrection in the race for the Democratic nomination was due largely to overwhelming support from black voters. Yet racial tensions laid bare by nationwide protests have revealed a problem for Biden in the November election -- he doesn't excite younger black voters who want change, not just a sympathetic ear.

Biden's ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- On a day when black leaders called for police reforms, questions were raised about law-enforcement double standards, and the city was very much a political battleground in the presidential campaign, more than a thousand demonstrators gathered, marched, and danced peacefully in Philadelphia for several hours on Tuesday to protest ...Read more

Doctors and public health experts will tell you that, compared to white Americans, African American people die prematurely and disproportionately of many ills: heart disease, stroke, COVID-19, police violence.

The proximate causes of these early deaths vary. But there is a sameness to the pattern, experts say, and a common source of the skewed ...Read more