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Ohio man convicted after trying to shoot ex-wife at point-blank range inside restaurant in chilling video

Security video shows Matthew Exton thrusting a handgun at point-blank range near his ex-wife's head inside a Toledo restaurant before a waiter acted.

Inflation Complicates Trump’s Midterms Pitch to Voters

TONY ROMM

Gas prices are high, mortgage rates are climbing and inflation remains well above target, complicating the president’s midterm appeal.

Alabama Is Set to Execute a Murderer. The Jury Wanted Him to Live.

RICK ROJAS

Jeffery Lee’s case has grappled with questions in Alabama about emerging execution methods and an abandoned sentencing practice that sent him and others to death row.

Four Wisconsin cops injured after suspected drunk driver barrels toward crowd, sparks police chase

Four Wisconsin police officers were injured after a car drove toward a crowd at a Green Bay food truck disturbance, prompting an officer to fire.

Trespasser stopped at former Vice President Kamala Harris' Malibu home

SEEMA MEHTA

A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris' cliffside home in Malibu.

As Millions of Birds Migrate, Residents Are Asked to Turn Off the Lights

ISHANI DESAI

Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.

Risks for Clicks: Why Online Influencers Push Shock Content

MARK WALKER

A growing number of social media creators are pushing the boundaries of safety and good taste to feed algorithms and win followers.

Alaska drops voter misconduct cases against American Samoans who wrongly checked 'US citizen' box

Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen

A Mastodon Tooth Is Discovered in a California Creek

ALENA CERRO

A researcher surveying a San Mateo County creek stumbled upon a preserved Pacific mastodon molar estimated to be at least 10,000 years old.

What a Hunchbacked Raccoon Teaches Us About Kindness in a Fractured World

KURT STREETER AND GRANT HINDSLEY

A neckless raccoon named Jimothy captivated the internet, and sent this Seattle resident out looking.

Son of notorious Somali dictator reportedly living in Ohio decades after brutal regime's collapse

Ayanle Siad Barre, son of Somalia's former dictator, has been living in Ohio's large Somali community, prompting calls for a U.S. investigation.

Federal judge rules Trump DHS plan for 50% FEMA staffing cuts was unlawful

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's plan to cut staffing at FEMA by 50% was unlawful

Knife-wielding man races at officer in packed seaside park before one deadly shot rings out: video

Santa Monica police bodycam video shows 44-year-old Michael Rodriguez charging an officer with a knife in Palisades Park before he was shot and killed by police.

Florida woman accused of setting stranger on fire at gas station, leaving horrific burns

Video captured Eleanor Crawford allegedly igniting gasoline while a stranger pumped fuel at a St. Petersburg Mobil gas station, police said.

Man accused in brutal motel stabbing sought as person of interest in 4 deaths, child attack

Kaegan Jude Solet is sought as a person of interest after four people were found stabbed to death and a child critically wounded in Houma, Louisiana.