A 20-year-old suspect is in custody after two men were stabbed at the Mall of America in Minnesota during what police called an “interrupted theft.”
AP: Suspect arrested after stabbing at Mall of America
AP: 8 killed by New York motorist in ‘cowardly act of terror’
A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path Tuesday, killing at least eight and injuring 11 others.
AP: Manafort and Gates face decades in prison, millions in fines
Special counsel Robert Muller’s charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides marked a new phase in his sprawling investigation into Russia and President Donald Trump, underscoring the ongoing threat Mueller poses to the president.
California works to clean up after wildfires
Designer Jonathan Westerberg looks at the statistics behind the California wildfires as the Associated Press reports the clean-up effort is ‘for the record books.’
AP: At least 50 killed as gunman opens fire at Las Vegas concert
A gunman perched on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel-casino unleashed a hail of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
AP: ‘Nothing, nothing.’ Aid lags in hurricane-torn Puerto Rico
Some Puerto Ricans say they have not seen anyone from the Puerto Rican government, much less FEMA, since the Hurricane Maria tore up the island Sept. 20, killing at least 16 people and leaving nearly all 3.4 million people in Puerto Rico without power.
AP: Security guard arrested for filing false shooting report
The 25-year-old St. Kate’s guard was taken into custody late Wednesday after he admitted to investigators that he accidentally shot himself while on duty the previous night.
AP: Hurricane Irma pummels Florida; ‘This one scares me’
A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 130 mph winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets and knocking out power to more than 2 million homes.
AP: Nations rush to help islands devastated by Hurricane Irma
Florida is bracing for the onslaught of Hurricane Irma, with forecasters warning Irma could slam headlong into the Miami metropolitan area of 6 million people, punish the entire length of the state’s Atlantic coast and move into Georgia and South Carolina.
AP: Trump orders end to program protecting immigrant ‘dreamers’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday began dismantling Barack Obama’s program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children.
AP: Trump raises stakes in escalating North Koreans nuke crisis
North Korea claimed Sunday “perfect success” in an underground test of what it called a hydrogen bomb — potentially vastly more destructive than an atomic bomb.
AP: Houston endures more rain and chaos; 6 feared drowned in van
There was no relief in sight Monday from Tropical Storm Harvey, the storm that spun into Texas as a Category 4 hurricane then parked itself over the Gulf Coast. With nearly 2 more feet of rain expected, authorities worried whether the worst was yet to come.
AP: Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston
Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation’s fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.
AP: Blast at Minnesota school kills 2, injures others
An explosion at a school in Minneapolis killed two people, injured several others and reduced part of a building to rubble, fire officials said.
AP: 1 dead, 1 missing after explosion at Minneapolis school
One school staff member has been found dead but another is still unaccounted for following a natural gas explosion Wednesday at a college prep school in Minneapolis, authorities said.