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Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

The Justice Department is urging U.S. attorneys nationwide to use federal courts — where more serious charges are available — to prosecute people suspected of violence or property damage during the protests over George Floyd’s death....

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that federal agents have arrested 51 people for acts of violence since the protests began. The U.S. Marshals service...

Protesters defied an emergency decree and confronted police in Chile’s capital Monday, continuing disturbances that have left at least 11 dead and led the president to say the country is “at war.” Police used tear gas and streams of water to break up a march by hundreds of students and union members on one of Santiago’s main streets, but demonstrators...

A 66-year-old man accused of fatally shooting five of his neighbors on Chicago’s Northwest Side over the weekend left a note on his door with a haunting message written in Polish, prosecutors said in court Monday.

A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities say he fatally shot five of his neighbors Saturday evening at an apartment complex on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police. Krysztof Marek, of the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road, was charged with five felony counts of first degree murder, Chicago police said in a statement Monday morning.

The fifth victim, identified as 53-year-old Jolanta Topolska succumbed to her injuries Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

A teacher was arrested Friday after a fight with a student in a classroom at an alternative high school in Maywood, the sheriff’s department confirmed.

Crowds chanted “shut it down right now” as they marched down one of Chicago’s busiest expressways on Saturday.

The former host of “The Daily Show” and his wife are transforming their New Jersey farm into a sanctuary for neglected animals. Jon and Tracey Stewart announced their plan Saturday while being honored by the animal advocacy group Farm Sanctuary.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday emphatically defended the web of regulations the Fed helped enact after the 2008 financial crisis, saying it helped restore the banking system’s health and disputing criticism that the rules have hurt lending. Yellen said the Fed is prepared to adjust the regulations as needed to help financial institutions. But in a speech to...

Two Chicago policemen wounded in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday night were shot with a rifle powerful enough to penetrate the officers’ body armor, police say.

In a Tuesday Facebook post, the former CBS News anchor says the GOP presidential nominee “crossed a line with dangerous potential” by launching “a direct threat of violence against a political rival.”

Steven Simminger has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed Colin McGovern to death following an argument over sports teams.

Family members of two people killed by Chicago police officers spoke out Sunday afternoon, a day after the shooting, questioning why police resorted to firing their weapons at all.

Two people were killed on Chicago’s West Side after a police-involved shooting early Saturday morning, according to authorities.

A mother of five was “accidentally” killed in a police-involved shooting Saturday on the city’s West Side, police said, part of an officer-involved shooting that left a second person, a 19-year-old NIU student, dead. NBC 5’s Emily Florez reports.