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Church members console each other after a shooting at the Saint Stevens Episcopal Church on Thursday, June 16, 2022 in Vestavia, Ala.

An attendee helped save lives in an Alabama church shooting

Police said church members were spared further violence Thursday evening when someone at the dinner subdued the gunman and held him until police arrived.

2 U.S. lawmakers managed to get home from Israel. Other Americans have not

Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Dan Goldman are back in the U.S. after sheltering in place as violence erupted in Israel on Saturday. Flight disruptions have left other U.S. citizens unable to get home.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nominee General Charles Brown Jr., arrives in the Capitol after his confirmation hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee in July.

Gen. C.Q. Brown confirmed as top military officer despite Tuberville's roadblock

Gen. Brown has had a four-decade military career, serving as a combat pilot and chief of the Air Force. He was confirmed as chairman of the joint chiefs by a Senate vote of 83-11.

Police tape is pictured at a crime scene in Monterey Park, Calif., in January 2023.

4 key takeaways from the FBI's annual crime report

There was less reported violent crime across the U.S. last year after a dramatic spike in 2020. But there were more car thefts and hate crimes reported.

People line up to vote at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter Elementary School in New Orleans in 2020.

The Supreme Court won't speed up the redrawing of Louisiana's congressional map

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to speed up Louisiana's congressional map redrawing after a lower court found the map likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

Millions could benefit from a new way out of student loan default

The U.S. Education Department has a new plan to help the nearly 7 million federal student loan borrowers who are in default rehabilitate their loans. But the clock is ticking.

Disease intervention specialists, like Deneshun Graves with the Houston Health Department, work to reach pregnant women at high risk of syphilis to get them testing and treatment to protect their babies.

Syphilis among newborns continues to rise. Pregnant moms need treatment, CDC says

Unless mothers are treated during pregnancy, newborns can sicken, die or face lifelong disabilities. The CDC is urging public health providers to connect more people to testing and medication.

A group of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, DACA recipients and allies march through Border Field State Park, Feb. 7, 2018.

A federal judge again declares that DACA is illegal. Issue likely to be decided by US Supreme Court

A federal judge has declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Maternal death rates have been consistently highest among Black women. But they are also rising among other racial groups.

U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk

The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.

Two American flamingos seen at a Zoo in Miami, in July 2016. Flamingos are native to Florida, but less than 1% of the world's population resides there after the birds were hunted to near extinction at the turn of the 20th century.

Not in the Yucatan anymore: Hurricane Idalia flung flamingos across the eastern U.S.

Flamingos have been found as far north as Pennsylvania after Hurricane Idalia struck Florida last week. But the birds were likely blown in all the way from the Yucatan Peninsula.

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