- The San Diego city attorney’s office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing case in U.S. history
- Louisiana is shrinking
- Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency
- The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 34-38-42-44-69, Mega Ball: 8, Megaplier:
- Newly released recordings of 911 calls show Texas residents and staffers at Camp Mystic caught up in the catastrophic flooding in July pleaded for help as rushing waters rise around them, stranding them in attics and on roofs
- For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear
- Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to three more months in prison for violating his supervised release terms in a New York gang case
- A New York City high school senior has been jailed on a federal arson charge days after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger
- Officials in Louisiana say two inmates accused of violent crimes are on the run after escaping from jail by removing pieces of a wall and using sheets to scale a wall
- The Social Security Administration plans to cut foot traffic to its field offices by 50% next year
- The nation’s freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday
- Melania Trump has continued a decades-old first lady tradition of visiting with hospitalized children for the holidays