Days after a mystery winner struck the $1.3B Mega Millions jackpot, dozens of Illinois residents flocked to this lucky suburban Chicago Speedway.
Author: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
The NRA helped make it hard to study gun violence for decades. Now the floodgates are open.
What actually reduces gun violence? The NRA helped make it hard to study for decades. Now these studies are getting federal funding to seek solutions.
Cooper Roberts, boy paralyzed in July 4th shooting, finally goes outside – and enjoys a popsicle
Cooper Roberts, 8, was able to go outside in a wheelchair and eat a popsicle, the first time since being paralyzed in the Highland Park shooting.
Fourth of July parade shooting leaves another community traumatized – and transformed
Like many others before them, residents of Highland Park are embarking on the long journey of reckoning with the aftermath of a mass shooting.
They came for the American dream. On the Fourth of July, they survived an American shooting.
The massacre at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, is the most recent in an American tradition of mass shootings.
‘Going to be watching’: Hurricane Agatha expected to hit Mexico on Monday. Is it a threat to the US?
Hurricane Agatha is expected to hit southern Mexico as a category 3 storm Monday. U.S. meteorologists are keeping watch of where it’s heading.
An open door, missed opportunity, ‘wrong decision’: List of what went wrong in Texas school massacre grows
Numerous instances of mistakes, misjudgments or misfortune allowed the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in a Texas school to continue.
It’s not just Uvalde, Texas — gunfire on school grounds is at historic high in the US
Gunfire on school property is at an all-time high, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database at the Naval Postgraduate School.
These adoptees refuse to be ‘political props’ in the debate over abortion rights
A growing chorus of adoptees are speaking out about the traumas of adoption. It’s not a replacement for abortion rights, they say.
Gun violence is seeping onto American sports fields – and it’s impacting kids
Gunfire sent hundreds of children and parents running last week at a football game in Virginia, the latest gun violence at kids’ sporting events.