Two people died and at least six others – including two children – were injured during a shooting at a Juneteenth festival in Texas Saturday night, officials said. A fight between two groups broke out at around 10:50 p.m. during the

The last Marylander to face the death penalty has been resentenced to life in prison for hi role the 2002 kidnapping and murder of a D.C. police lieutenant’s son, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland said. Kenneth J. Lighty, 41, no

Country star Darius Rucker said in a recent interview that country music still carries a “stigma” of racism today. In 2011, Rucker wrote in an editorial for “The Tennessean” that country music has a “stigma of rebel flags and racism.” In the

From Paris to Toulouse, some 300,000 people took to the streets of France on Saturday urging voters to block the country’s far-right party from gaining a majority in the upcoming parliament elections. The elections will be held in a two-round vote

Chief Paco Balderrama has been under investigation since February for an alleged inappropriate relationship with someone who is not a city employee, according to a news release on Thursday. Balderrama, who has been chief for more than three years, was not

The Israeli military announced Sunday it had begun to implement a daily “tactical pause of military activity” along a key road in the southern Gaza Strip to enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to Palestinians. The pause was to take place

Eight people, including two children, were shot at a Michigan water park Saturday afternoon, with the gunman later killing himself. The shooting occurred at about 5 p.m. at a “splash pad” in the town of Rochester Hills, with families gathered to