Officer charged in man’s death
Prosecutors in Tulsa, Okla., charge a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street with first-degree manslaughter.
Police decline to release video
The chief in Charlotte, N.C., says releasing police dashcam and body camera footage of the killing of 43-year Keith Lamont Scott could undermine the investigation.
Diplomacy over Syria at impasse
Violence in the war-torn nation flares anew and the relationship between the U.S. and Russia in the conflict appears to reach a new low.
Ties severed with accreditor
The Education Department’s move against the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools could force for-profit schools to close and threaten financial aid to hundreds of thousands of students.
Another night in the dark
A fire at a power plant sets off an outage across the aging utility grid, leaving most of Puerto Rico’s 3.5 million people without service.
Reality sets in for college teams
It’s not yet October, but Mississippi, Oklahoma and Notre Dame — all ranked in the Top 15 at the season’s start — have each already lost two games.
