Aila Slisco

Video shared to Twitter shows a car driving through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters at New York City's Times Square on Thursday night.

The chemical perchlorate, found in explosives, matches and rocket fuel, is believed to cause birth defects.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that Jacob Blake told him he would refuse to be defeated "whether we walked again or not."

A Texas court blocked efforts to send applications for absentee ballots to all registered voters due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, while similar legal attempts to limit mail-in voting have been made by the Trump campaign and Republican officials in multiple states.

Adam Carolla suggested on Twitter that those who are concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic "got played" because only the "old or sick" die from the virus.

The U.S. Air Force recently approved the first request from an airman with a child custody agreement, allowing the airman to be stationed near his child.

Rep. Joe Kennedy III was defeated by incumbent Sen. Ed Markey in the Massachusetts Democratic primary on Tuesday, making him the first Kennedy to lose an election in the state.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) accused MSNBC host Joy Reid of engaging in "casual Islamophobia" and demanded an apology after Reid compared President Donald Trump's comments to "how Muslims act" in "radicalizing" extremists.

Phoenix, Arizona experienced its 50th day this year with high temperatures at or exceeding 110 degrees on Friday, smashing the previous record, which saw 33 such days during the whole of 2011.

A cartoon depicting a Black man being assaulted by white men throughout history, including police officers, while struggling to say the phrase "I can't breathe" proved controversial when it was included in an eighth grade classroom assignment in Texas.

The FDA announced Friday that its emergency use authorization for experimental drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19 had expanded to include all hospitalized patients, one week after new research indicated the drug may be effective against moderate illness.

Black voters' approval of President Donald Trump rose from 15 percent to 24 percent as the Republican National Convention got underway, while his overall approval rating dipped 1 percent, according to a new poll released Friday.

Diplomatic tensions may have set back Canadian efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by months, as China continues disputes with both Canada and its neighbor the United States.

"Let's give back to someone who bravely tried to defend his community," the creators of the campaign to financially benefit alleged murderer Kyle Rittenhouse wrote on the Christian crowdfunding site.

"There is no more meaningful work that law enforcement does than rescuing children," U.S. Marshals Service Director Donald Washington said while announcing that 39 missing children had been found after a two-week operation.

Moderna's two-dose vaccine candidate is believed to be "generally safe and well-tolerated" and potentially effective regardless of age, according to new data released by the company on Wednesday.

"Federal authorities are committed to investigating this matter as thoroughly and efficiently as possible," the Department of Justice said in a news release confirming that a federal civil rights investigation had been launched.

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday voted 4-2, with one abstention, to approve one-year $12 million intergovernmental agreement the will keep Chicago Police Department officers inside 55 high schools until 2021.

"Last night shows the threat of these 'militias' is a clear and present danger to those who protest," said leaders from the National Urban League and its Wisconsin affiliates on Wednesday.

Videos posted to social media show heated protests against police brutality and racial injustice sparked by the shooting of Jacob Blake continued for a third night in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday.

"Cancelled is what's happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left," former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann said during his speech at the virtual 2020 Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

Sen. Susan Collins' reelection campaign posted a photo to social media that appears to feature a campaign sign for President Donald Trump that was digitally blurred out.

Self-proclaimed "Florida man" Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said during the Republican National Convention on Monday that "socialist" Democrats hope to make former Vice President Joe Biden "an extra in a movie written, produced and directed by others" by winning the presidency.

Democratic Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones said "the Democratic Party does not want Black people to leave the mental plantation they've had us on for decades" while urging Black voters to back President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on Monday.

Circuit Judge Charles Dodson said that Florida officials "have essentially ignored the requirement of school safety by requiring the statewide opening of brick-and-mortar schools" amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

While only 31 percent of Americans surveyed in a poll released Monday approved of President Donald Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 percent approved in a poll taken by the same group in March.

Springfield, Massachusetts police are searching for a man who allegedly dished out involuntary hugs to Walmart shoppers while saying "Just giving you a COVID hug. You now have COVID."

Kenneth Ayers, 49, was arrested Thursday night after allegedly shooting at least seven cars from his UPS work truck, injuring one woman, over the course of three months.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said restaurants could immediately return to 100 percent capacity on Friday, because the state's COVID-19 "numbers are very good."

A former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces was arrested Friday after allegedly providing military secrets to "self-proclaimed members of Russia's Intelligence Service."