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U.S. employers likely rehired several million more workers in June, thereby reducing a Depression-level unemployment rate, but the most up-to-date data suggests that a resurgent coronavirus will limit further job gains

Authorities are closing honky tonks, bars and other drinking establishments in some parts of the U.S. to stem the surge of COVID-19 infections

Newly released body camera footage shows Florida police officers laughing and celebrating after shooting protesters with rubber bullets during a May protest against police brutality

A New York appeals court has cleared the way for a publisher to distribute a tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece over the objections of the president's brother

Los Angeles leaders have voted to slash the Police Department budget by $150 million

Mauree Turner is a living example of the growing diversity of big cities

Kansas’ top public health official predicts the state will face steeper increases in new coronavirus cases

A bishop has suspended a suburban Indianapolis Catholic priest from public ministry for comparing the Black Lives Matter movement and its organizers to “maggots and parasites.”

A federal judge has knocked down a cornerstone border policy of the Trump administration that denies asylum to people who travel through another country to reach the Mexico border without first seeking protection in that country

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is closing indoor seating in bars in parts of the state, including a city with a bar that has been linked to a rising number of infections

A Florida trucker has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a college student working as a Denver radio station intern 40 years ago

Homes in six states across the U.S. can expect to get knocks on their doors from census takers in two weeks

Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm have been conducted in June

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered bars and indoor operations of restaurants to close for the next three weeks in most parts of the state

Prosecutors accused a man of conspiring with his new wife to keep the bodies of her children hidden on his rural Idaho property

A massive statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson has been removed from Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue

Mississippi officials are having a ceremony to relegate the former state flag to history

Immigration judges say they are being muzzled by the Trump administration and the union that represents them is suing the U.S. Department of Justice

A police chief in suburban Denver has defended officers who used pepper spray and batons on demonstrators during a vigil for a Black man who died after police put him in a chokehold last year