Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was granted parole Thursday, seven years after a jury convicted her of murdering Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant she shot inside his own apartment. The…

Every major automaker can design a car that parks itself. Almost none of them control the website you use to shop for one, or the inventory data that ends up on Autotrader. That work is outsourced, an...

Tennessee put Christa Pike on a gurney Wednesday night and gave her two doses of pentobarbital. She did not die. Witnesses heard her snoring. She was taken out by ambulance, and the governor has now h...

Dean Cain played Superman on television in the nineties. In August 2025 he announced he was joining ICE. At CPAC this year he defended it. He is 60, he has a podcast called The Homeland, and he has a…

A 62-year-old man was teaching his 18-year-old daughter to parallel park on a Sunday afternoon. She hit him with the car and dragged him a short distance. He died at the hospital. Police say there is…

A federal appeals court stopped Christa Pike’s execution about an hour before it was set to happen Wednesday morning. By evening the Supreme Court had wiped that order away. Tennessee can now pu…

A Chicago police sergeant left a family barbecue, walked into an alley, confronted a group of teenagers and threatened to slap one of them. A 17-year-old girl started filming. Prosecutors say he punch...

Byron Donalds went to Florida A&M, one of the country’s most prominent historically Black universities, to talk to student voters. His campaign banned all recording. No audio, no video, no signs.…

Trump’s approval is somewhere between 29 and 37 percent depending on the poll. The number that should worry his party more is this one: the share of self-identified MAGA Republicans who support him ha...

Tarrant County, Texas voted last month to close 92 polling places five weeks before a midterm election with a US Senate race on the ballot. It is not an outlier. Since the Supreme Court stopped requir...

Christa Pike was hours from becoming the first woman Tennessee has executed in more than 200 years. On Wednesday morning a federal appeals court stopped it, 2 to 1, after the state conceded something…

Eleven men drove to the Westfield area over three days in September expecting to meet children for sex, according to Indiana investigators. Undercover officers were waiting at every one of them. What…

A Texas elementary school principal is accused of telling a job applicant with a troubling record to legally change his name so he could get past the district’s own background screening. He did. She h...

A New York Times engineering executive was shot dead in a sports park parking lot on Saturday afternoon. The two people arrested are his wife’s parents. Both are 77. What happened Jonathan McKinsey, 4...

Tomorrow is the deadline. The last American troops leave Iraq, ending a military presence that began with the 2003 invasion and outlasted four presidents. Roughly 4,600 Americans died there. Nobody ag...

Florida announced 20 voter fraud arrests last week, forty days before the midterms. Florida counted 10,986,175 ballots in 2024. Both of those numbers are real, and only one of them made the press conf...

Nigerian police raiding forest camps found the skulls of 28 people. Over the same weekend, armed men seized 47 farmers harvesting peanuts in one state and about 40 women in another. These are three se...

At 12:01 this morning, roughly a billion dollars of Canadian goods stopped being allowed into the United States. Not taxed. Banned. The law being used to do it is 96 years old and no president had eve...

A woman says seven Cornell fraternity members drugged and raped her in 2024. The university investigated, expelled some students and shut the chapter. No one was ever criminally charged. On Monday, tw...

Three people are dead and four are hurt after a shooting at an after-hours club in Richland County, South Carolina. Investigators say it may have started with an argument over a cellphone. What is kno...

Madonna won seven awards and performed at the VMAs for the first time in 23 years. Taylor Swift won Video of the Year and became the most-decorated artist in the show’s history. Nirvana took the…

Here is what actually happened over the last seven days, what it added up to, and what carries into this week. Everything below is something we reported and checked as it happened. The week in one sen...

Chris Hansen bought a ticket to the movie about Chris Hansen, sat in a Times Square AMC with regular moviegoers, and gave Robert Pattinson’s performance a D. The film Primetime is an A24 narrati…

Zymir Demarco Smith was seven months old and asleep next to his mother when gunfire came through the apartment. That was August 3, 2025. This week, thirteen months later, prosecutors announced three a...

An American family of four was hours from leaving for the airport. They had a flight home Friday afternoon. The building they were renting in central Athens exploded and collapsed first. What happened...

The White House cut CNN from Air Force One on Saturday. Nobody was named to replace it, which means there is no television pool coverage of the president’s trip at all. This is two days after a…

House Oversight Democrats demanded answers from ICE on Friday about a Florida holding facility that whistleblowers say held 342 people in a space rated for about 50. The underlying whistleblower accou...

Donald Trump sued a pollster for getting a poll wrong. An Iowa judge threw it out on Wednesday with prejudice, meaning the same claim cannot be refiled. Three days later the case is not actually over....

The long story is that Americans are getting married less and caring about it less. The newest data says something more complicated, and the complication is the interesting part. The long decline is r...

NYPD took 103 people into custody on First Avenue on Friday, breaking up a sit-in a few blocks from the United Nations. The protest was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. Nobody stayed in a cell. Th...

Starbucks is closing about 250 North American stores this week. The company says they were underperforming. The question worth asking is whether that is a Starbucks problem or a customer problem. The…

Ask how many Americans live paycheck to paycheck and you get answers between 48% and 63%, depending on who is asking. That spread is not a rounding error. It is fifty million people, and understanding...

If you have stopped posting, you are not unusual and you are not late. 55% of people say they post less than they did five years ago. Nearly half have deleted an app because of stress. What the number...

A senator asked the woman nominated to run the Food and Drug Administration a simple question: is it possible for the president to be wrong about something? She would not answer it. What happened Dr.…

The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has filed a sworn declaration saying none of it happened and that she never met him. What the declaration says It runs 12 pages. The language…

The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has filed a sworn declaration saying none of it happened and that she never met him. What the declaration says It runs 12 pages. The language…

A B-2 Spirit flew over the White House on Thursday as Xi Jinping was welcomed to the South Lawn. It is the same type of bomber the United States used to strike Iran’s underground nuclear sites. The ce...

Benjamin Netanyahu walked to the podium at the United Nations on Thursday evening and more than 100 delegates walked out. He opened by inviting the rest to follow them. The walkout Roughly 77 countrie...

Three different groups of people say TikTok is burying their posts. People criticizing Donald Trump. People posting about Jeffrey Epstein. And Andrew Tate, who is suing over it. Same platform, same ye...

Starting October 1, saying you are in a gang counts as evidence that you are in a gang in Florida. So does posting the right words on the right account. That is the short version of a law Ron DeSantis...

An argument about a drive-thru order at a Church’s Chicken in Orange Mound ended with a woman dead. Monica Williams, 47, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and got 30 years. The Shelby County Dist...

The prime minister of Israel spent part of Tuesday making a video about the mayor of New York. He posted it, and he said he is bringing the subject to the United Nations on Thursday. The video Benjami...

Joachim Lanham was 24, from Norway, and on day 22 of rollerblading from New York City to Los Angeles. An SUV hit him on a road outside Salina, Kansas. Whoever was driving kept going, and he was left i...

Xi Jinping lands outside Washington on Wednesday, and Donald Trump is going to the airport to meet him. Presidents do not usually do that. The guest comes to the White House. What the welcome looks li...

Dolly Parton has been gone four weeks. The people running what she left behind are now in a Nashville courtroom, and the man on the other side of the filing is her nephew. Who is involved Bryan Seaver...

Body-camera footage released from a small Georgia police department shows Sgt. Chris Fisher telling other officers he punched a man in the face and put a Taser prong in his ear. Five days later, that…

A hacking crew says it walked out of an FBI website with the home addresses of federal agents. The bureau is not denying that something happened. It confirmed Tuesday that it is investigating unauthor...