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Several people were injured Wednesday at an amusement park in Branson, Missouri, after sections of a train ride derailed from the track, the park said.

A suspect is in custody after allegedly hijacking a New York City bus Thursday morning with "what appeared to be a firearm," police officials said.

President Joe Biden stepped up his effort to paint Republicans as a threat to Americans' pocketbooks in a speech from upstate New York on Thursday, a closing argument that focuses less on his own accomplishments and more on what the GOP might do if they take control of Congress.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged Thursday that President Joe Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain violated the Hatch Act, saying that they take the provision seriously but that they "are not perfect."

The man who gunned down the Houston area's beloved first Sikh sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to death, according to court records.

The Texas Department of Public Safety's top official is due to deliver Thursday the first formal, public update to his agency's oversight panel on its officers' actions during the May massacre at a Uvalde elementary school, with families of the victims, furious over the response, expected to attend the meeting to call on him to resign.

President Joe Biden's visit Thursday to Syracuse in deep-blue New York might seem like an unusual one for him to make less than two weeks before the midterm elections.