Declaring America in crisis, Donald Trump pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters Thursday night that as president he will restore the safety they fear they're losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from Hillary Clinton's record of "death, destruction, terrorism and weakness." Confidently addressing the finale of his party's less-than-smooth national convention, the billionaire businessman declared the nation's problems too staggering to be fixed within the confines of traditional politics.
Betsy Bloomingdale, the widow of a department store heir who hobnobbed with the world's elite and was best friends with former first lady Nancy Reagan, has died.
Documents show that a Minnesota police officer and a black motorist he shot to death during a traffic stop may have interacted in a previous stop more than four years earlier.
The mother of a 24-year-old Colorado man who joined Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State group says her son was killed in combat in Syria.
A patrol car video shows a white Texas police officer violently throwing a black woman to the ground followed by another officer suggesting to her that black people have "violent tendencies." The traffic stop for speeding happened in Austin last summer, but the video wasn't publicly released until Thursday.
Authorities say a plane set to fly from West Palm Beach to Philadelphia with 138 people aboard had to be evacuated after a report of a possible hydraulic fuel leak.
Newly released documents show undercover officers mingled with oil and gas protesters during a peaceful demonstration in a Denver suburb last May, providing "critical information" to commanders.
The family of a Tucson man being held on terrorism charges says in a new statement that he is autistic, incapable of caring for himself and couldn't carry out any of the attacks he is suspected of plotting.
The Latest on a boy and a woman camping with a Boy Scouts adventure program who were killed when storms swept through a northern Minnesota forest (all times local): 4:50 p.m.