A mother has been sentenced to life in prison after beating her four-year-old son to death because she believed he was gay.
A provocative new study from Princeton and Northwestern universities has shown that the US government represents the rich and powerful and an oligarchy and not the interests of ordinary Americans.
Three people have been killed at shootings at two Jewish centres in the Overland Park suburb of Kansas City.
A New York man has been exonerated and freed after spending nearly 25 years in prison for a murder that he could not have committed because he was on holiday in Florida at the time.
A two-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old sister with a gun that he thought was a toy at their family home in Philadelphia, US.