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Sheila Paras/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Investigators are searching for answers as to why someone wearing a ski mask and body armor went on a shooting spree in Philadelphia on the eve of the Fourth of [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nine people were injured in a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C. early Wednesday as residents were still celebrating the Fourth of July, police said. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The sentencing hearing for the El Paso Walmart gunman on dozens of federal hate crimes and firearms charges is set to begin Wednesday. Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty [Read More…]

oscar acosta / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for the 16th time on Tuesday, adding to his record for the most career championships of any [Read More…]

larrybraunphotography.com/Getty Images (ILLINOIS) — It was a somber Fourth of July for the residents of Highland Park, Illinois, as they gathered to mark one year since the mass shooting that took the lives of seven [Read More…]

larrybraunphotography.com/Getty Images (ILLINOIS) — It was a somber Fourth of July for the residents of Highland Park, Illinois, as they gathered to mark one year since the mass shooting that took the lives of seven [Read More…]

ABC News (NORTH CAROLINA) — When Dorian Bolden began expanding his coffee shop, Beyu Caffe, in Durham, North Carolina, he says the most difficult part was securing funding as a Black business owner. “I recognize [Read More…]

kali9/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A gunman clad in a bulletproof vest and carrying multiple rounds of ammunition opened fire in Philadelphia late Monday, killing at least five people and wounding two children, authorities said. Two [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (FORT WORTH, Texas) — At least three people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting late Monday in Fort Worth, Texas, police said. The Fort Worth Police Department said [Read More…]

Piccell/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — One woman has died and nine other have been injured after a firework exploded at a home late Monday night, police say. The explosion happened at a home in [Read More…]

Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — A doting grandfather who immigrated from Mexico to give his family a better life and two parents on a fun outing with their [Read More…]

Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A woman was pronounced dead early Monday morning after becoming unconscious during a hike in the Grand Canyon as temperatures reached triple digits, officials said. On Sunday [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — As investigators worked Monday to identify the suspects who killed two people and injured 28 others when they unleashed a barrage of gunfire early Sunday on a Baltimore block party, [Read More…]

mbbirdy/Getty Images (WICHITA, Kan.) — Eight people were shot and two were trampled when a gunfight involving multiple patrons erupted early Sunday inside a Wichita, Kansas, nightclub, sparking a chaotic stampede for the exit door, [Read More…]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia on Monday night, killing four people and wounding two boys in the latest outbreak of gun violence in the [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who went missing as a teenager in 2015 after last being seen walking his dogs in Houston has been found alive, his family and police said Monday. Police and [Read More…]

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — College admissions have come under scrutiny following the Supreme Court’s decision to curtail affirmative action in higher education. On Monday, several civil rights and advocacy groups including the Chica [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Thirty-six million Americans are on alert for dangerously high temperatures, with the center of the heat dome over the West. On Monday, temperatures could reach a scorching 111 degrees in [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A veteran Indiana sergeant was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance at a hospital early Monday, authorities said. At about 12:50 a.m., Tell City Sgt. Heather Glenn [Read More…]

Corbett Fire Dept. (NEW YORK) — A 40-year-old hiker was killed over the weekend when he slipped and plummeted down the side of a mountain in front of his wife and five children near Oregon’s [Read More…]