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A Loveland, Colorado, police officer was fired after allegedly punching a handcuffed woman who appeared to spit on him in a hospital examination room, authorities said. In body-camera footage from the May 20 incident shared Friday by the Loveland Police Department, the woman curses at officer Russell Maranto as she …

COLUMBUS, GA. — Donald Trump’s legal defense did not start in a courtroom. It began on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. In the wake of his historic federal indictment, the former president is set to step on stage Saturday in front of more than 2,000 people in a packed …

HONG KONG — After three years of trying to do business under some of the toughest Covid controls in the world, U.S. and other Western companies in China began 2023 with cautious optimism: The country was finally reopening and Chinese officials, eager to reinvigorate the economy, were actively courting overseas …

Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are investigating an encounter recorded on video that shows a man being held down by multiple officers in a Walmart superstore on Thursday. Christopher Enloe, an uncle of the man in the video posted on TikTok, said his nephew had gone into the store to …

A former USC football player was arrested and charged in connection to two rapes of female college students in Los Angeles, authorities said this week. Joshua Fred James Jackson Jr., 21, is facing one felony count of forcible sexual penetration and three felony counts of forcible rape, the Los Angeles …

WASHINGTON — Walt Nauta, an aide to Donald Trump, has been indicted on federal criminal charges connected to the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, Trump said Friday. In a post to his social media website Friday, Trump wrote that he’d “learned” that the Nauta would be indicted by …

Unhealthy air in parts of the U.S. was forecast for another day Friday as smoke from Canada wildfires continued to be brought south by winds, but some improvement has been seen. New York City had been blanketed by an eerie orange haze that began Tuesday when smoke from wildfires in …

The Republican presidential field is growing by the week with candidates eager to push the party past Donald Trump. Yet few of the former president’s rivals sought to capitalize on the latest indictment against him Thursday. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and several lower-tier candidates …

The owner of a funeral company is facing murder charges after allegedly shooting two people at a child’s burial service, killing a man serving as a pallbearer, police said. Wilson Chavis, 48, allegedly shot and killed 30-year-old Ronald Steven Banks of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Banks was at the service …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that civil rights activists say discriminated against Black voters in a surprise reaffirmation of the landmark Voting Rights Act. The court in a 5-4 vote ruled against Alabama, meaning the map of the seven congressional districts, …