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Taylor Desert, a TSA agent, checks in to pick up groceries at Gleaners Food Bank in Indianapolis, Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

TSA officers describe tears, tough choices and dwindling savings from working without pay

March 25, 2026 at 8:44 a.m.

A dispute in Congress over funding the Department of Homeland Security has held up their salaries since mid-February. With monthly bills coming due, many of these federal employees, who screen...

An image from video provided by WRTV shows investigators at the site of the fatal shooting of house cleaner Maria Florinda Rios Perez, who went to the wrong address in Whitestown, Ind., Nov. 5, 2025. (WRTV via AP)

Indiana homeowner charged in fatal shooting of house cleaner who showed up at the wrong door

November 18, 2025 at 12:09 p.m.

An Indiana homeowner accused of killing a house cleaner who mistakenly arrived at his front door was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Monday.

Bill Swick sits on the chair at his home in Minooka, Ill., Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Patients go without needed treatment after the government shutdown disrupts a telehealth program

October 30, 2025 at 8:13 a.m.

Bill Swick has a rare degenerative brain disease that inhibits his mobility and speech. Instead of the hassle of traveling an hour to a clinic in downtown Chicago to visit...

Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis, right, speaks during a news conference Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in McEwen, Tenn., at Accurate Energetic Systems. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy)

Authorities name the 16 killed in Tennessee plant blast, with a painstaking investigation promised

October 13, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

Authorities on Monday identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant.

Smoke fills the air as debris covers the ground and vehicles after a powerful blast ripped through a military explosives manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (WTVF-TV via AP)

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says

October 11, 2025 at 7:23 p.m.

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said.

Bullet holes mark the front door of the house of Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife who were shot earlier in the day, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Champlin, Minn. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Prosecutors: Suspect in shooting of Minnesota state lawmakers targeted two others that night

June 16, 2025 at 3:33 p.m.

The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another went to the homes of two other lawmakers to carry out more carnage on the night of the shootings,...

The rising waters of the Licking River touch the basketball hoop at Max Goldberg Park, Saturday, April 5, 2025, in Falmouth, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

At least 16 dead in flooding and tornadoes as storms slash US South and Midwest

April 6, 2025 at 8:52 a.m.

A storm system sweeping over large areas of the U.S. South and Midwest resulted in at least 16 weather-related deaths by early Sunday.

Carole Smith walks through her flooded home on Saturday, April 5, 2025, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Rising rivers and flash floods hit already waterlogged US communities

April 5, 2025 at 4:26 p.m.

Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding came Saturday for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned some deadly...

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