Mike Bloomberg on Tuesday hit back at President Trump over a since-deleted tweet that drew attention to the former New York City mayor’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing policy.

African Americans, who make up 13 percent of the country’s population, were the victims of 31 percent of police shootings last year.

Coronavirus isn't the only virus causing concern on cruise ships right now. Norovirus has forced Princess Cruises' Caribbean Princess to turn around.

Video shows a US Army drill sergeant hitting a recruit after he used profanity. Now the drill sergeant is suspended.

In what's sure to be a politically charged ceremony, more than 2,400 fetuses found last year at the suburban Chicago home of one of the Midwest's most prolific abortion doctors will be buried Wednesday in Indiana, a state with some of the nation's toughest anti-abortion laws. Indiana's top law enforcement official will preside over the mass burial in South Bend. The service comes five months after relatives sorting through Dr. Ulrich Klopfer's belongings after his Sept. 3 death came across 2,246 sets of preserved fetal remains stacked floor to ceiling in his garage.

The outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic, which came amidst China’s Lunar New Year celebrations, has shut down factories, schools, and government offices. It may be the worst blow to the precarious economies of China, to the Far East, and beyond.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee boycotted a hearing on Wednesday, complaining that the committee’s Democratic chairman, Adam Schiff, has neglected proper oversight of the intelligence community by failing to hold a hearing on the Justice Department inspector general’s report detailing the FBI’s FISA abuses.

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group said its forces in northeast Syria confronted gunmen with live fire after one of its patrols came under attack on Wednesday. "Coalition forces, conducting a patrol near Qamishli, Syria, encountered a checkpoint occupied by pro-Syrian regime forces," coalition spokesman Myles Caggins said. An AFP correspondent saw a US flag flying above an armoured vehicle as it left the village.

Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday. In Mexico's Nuevo Laredo city - separated from the United States by the Rio Grande - almost 80% of migrants treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the first nine months of 2019 said they had been victims of violence, including kidnapping. "They're treated as if they aren't really people," Sergio Martin, Mexico coordinator for MSF, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.