Richard Williams Photography/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Officials are investigating what caused a fire that killed two people and displaced multiple residents at an apartment building in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday.

The two people that died, a ma…

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images, FILE(ST. PAUL, Minn.) — A federal jury is poised to begin deliberating the fates of three former Minneapolis police officers accused of violating George Floyd’s civil rights by not providing medical aid during his fatal a…

Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE(TRENTON, N.J.) — New Jersey announced Thursday it is notifying nearly 200,000 homes and businesses that they are receiving drinking water from service lines contaminated with lead, according to the state …

Stephen B. Morton-Pool/Getty Images(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — A federal jury found Gregory McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, guilty on all counts in the Ahmaud Arbery hate crimes case.

The U.S. District Court p…

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Two storms are wreaking havoc on roads as they push from the West Coast to the East Coast with heavy snow, ice and rain.

As many as 98 vehicles crashed along a one-mile stretch of snowy Interstate 84 in Oregon on Monday, accordin…

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 935,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins Uni…

iStock/CatEyePerspective(NEW YORK) — In emotional testimony on Monday, former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane told a jury that he tried to help George Floyd several times but in each instance was blocked by his senior officer, Derek Chauvin.

L…

iStock/nirat(ATLANTA) — A jury began deliberations Monday in the federal hate-crime trial of three white Georgia men in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, with a prosecutor calling them “vigilantes” fueled by pent-up anger for Black people and defense attor…

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — New York state is giving $10 million to organizations that serve Asian American communities.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans across the country have had to cope with discriminatio…

jonathanfilskov-photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 935,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopki…

Joe Sohm/Visions of America / Contributor/Getty Images(HOMESTEAD, Fla.) — A Florida inmate’s death while being transferred between prisons has prompted a criminal investigation, the resignation of a corrections officer and the placement of 10 others o…

kali9/iStock(MILWAUKEE) — A suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Milwaukee girl allegedly told investigators it was the first time he had ever fired a gun, according to a criminal complaint.

Marcellus Duckworth, 23, of Milwaukee, w…

Michael J. Snow is seen in a undated police mugshot.- New York State Police(POTSDAM, N.Y.) — A 21-year-old college student was shot and killed in northern New York near her university’s campus, according to authorities.

Elizabeth Howell, a senior at …

Courtesy of Kandace Layne(NEW YORK) — Although tattooing has been around for centuries, the practice was mainly underground before becoming recognized as legitimate art in modern history.

Despite being a fairly mainstream industry now, discriminatory…

San Antonio Police Department/Facebook(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — Lina Sardar Khil’s family had held out hope that she would be found to celebrate her 4th birthday on Sunday, Feb. 20, at home, but two months after she went missing in San Antonio, Texas, th…

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — One police officer was killed and another was injured after a police helicopter crashed on Saturday into the water near Newport Beach in California.

The helicopter crashed at about 6:30 p.m. local t…

timnewman/Getty Images(PORTLAND, Ore.) — A woman was killed and five others were injured on Saturday in a shooting near a park in Portland, Oregon, police said.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting near Normandale Park in northeast Portland a…

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A dangerous winter blast is making its way across the east coast, bringing areas of heavy snow, strong winds and ushering in bitter cold temperatures for the rest of the weekend.

Snow squall warnings have been issued from Pennsyl…

Robert Alexander/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about potentially contaminated food, lipstick and other products from Family Dollar stores in six southern states following a major rodent infestation…

Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS) — Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter was sentenced to 24 months and a fine of $1,000 on Friday, following her conviction in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who …

Fran Polito/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A new Gallup poll has found that the number of Americans who identify as something other than heterosexual has doubled in the last decade.

Currently, 7.1% of Americans consider themselves to have an LGBT identity,…

iStock/ChiccoDodiFC(AUSTIN, Texas) — The City of Austin has agreed to pay a combined $10 million to two demonstrators who were injured during by police during the 2020 racial justice protests that took place in the city.

Two protesters, Justin Howell…

Getty IMages/Christopher Kimmel(NEW YORK) — Americans in at least 30 states are on high alert for snow, ice, flooding and tornadoes as storms sweep across the eastern half of the country.

They could bring damaging winds across the Deep South Thursday…

iStock/ChiccoDodiFC(CHICAGO) — Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability has released videos and documents related to the death of Irene Chavez, a woman who died in police custody last December.

The materials were released as part of an inve…

iStock(NEW YORK) — An environmental group said Philadelphia’s school system needs to re-examine and rework its water pipes after a study found major lead contamination in school buildings.

The report, which was released by the PennPIRG Education Fund…

Stephen B. Morton-Pool/Getty Images(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — In his state trial for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Travis McMichael testified he is not a racist. But prosecutors in his federal hate crimes case have presented the jury with numerous statements, …

KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS) — The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered a powerful and emotional eulogy at Thursday’s funeral for Amir Locke, a 22-year-old who was shot and killed by Minneapolis police officers executing a “no-knock” search war…

Steve Prezant/Getty Images(NASHVILLE) — Legislation introduced in the Tennessee state legislature this month is raising alarms from the state’s police union and gun control advocates who say it could turn the streets into the “old West.”

Two bills in…

Lezile-Ann Davis(NEW YORK) — Nia Whims, a 13-year-old from Florida, is speaking out after she was arrested and falsely accused of making threats of violence against her school in November 2021. Now, her family is filing a lawsuit against several parti…

Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams clarified his comments about drill rap — a controversial and popular rap subgenre — after meeting with a group of rappers on Tuesday night, where they discussed the gun violence impac…