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Los Angeles police shot and killed a 14-year-old boy after he shot at the officers, police said Wednesday.

Simone Thomas broke down in tears Thursday as soon as she began talking about her youngest son, Kouren Thomas, being fatally gunned down in Raleigh, North Carolina.

At least five people are missing and dozens were injured after an explosion sparked a massive fire that engulfed an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., fire officials said.

The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs last November has again been deemed incompetent to stand trial.

Patients who have been severely paralyzed for more than a decade have regained some sensation and neurological control in key muscles.

Another grand caper is underway, but this time with an all-female crew of thieves.

Donald Trump's persistent -- and false -- accusation that Hillary Clinton would abolish the Second Amendment as president is renewing scrutiny of her position on gun rights.

US Marines need to put away their cell phones, forget about their fancy coffees and get back to doing what Marines used to do -- dig a foxhole, cover up, stay quiet and be wary, the Corps' top officer says.

The US fertility rate fell to the lowest point since record keeping started more than a century ago, according to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It was supposed to be just another summer day at the Kansas City water park until Jess Sanford and Melanie Gocke witnessed something that would be imprinted on their minds forever: the death of 10-year-old Caleb Thomas Schwab from a neck injury while riding the world's tallest water slide.

A grandmother in Connecticut wants to get a phone "where you can actually see pictures" after winning the lottery.

The Drug Enforcement Agency will announce Thursday that marijuana will remain a schedule 1 drug, which declares it has "no medical use or purpose," according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision.

It's Day Two in the furor over Donald Trump's comments about gun owners' power in the presidential campaign, and there's no shortage of debate over what Trump really meant.

A California blaze that killed four people and cost nearly $57 million to extinguish was started by faulty hot tub wiring at a home, authorities said.

One day, Michael Andrew Ryan sat down at a computer, hopped onto a hidden part of the Internet known as the dark Web, called himself "Gunrunner" and opened for business.

Senior Air Force officials said Wednesday the Air Force it will face a shortage of 700 fighter pilots by the end of 2016. That shortfall is estimated to grow to 1,000 by 2022.

The slide at a Kansas water park where a boy died Sunday had been inspected and approved two months ago by an insurance company, CNN has learned.

A police officer accidentally shot and killed a retired Minnesota mother of two during a civilian police drill in Punta Gorda, Florida, that was supposed to employ only blank ammunition, police said.