A US prosecutor says Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by three white men “not because he was a threat.”

The verdict has reignited the debate about racial discrimination and injustices inherent in the US judicial system.

The robbery at a Bay Area Nordstrom department store followed another brazen mob-heist of high-end stores on Friday night.

Disabled Americans are disproportionately victims of violent crime and victimization, new data released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) show.

At least 11 adults and 12 children are transferred to hospitals after the incident, authorities said, refusing to divulge details about the number of casualties or the ages of those reported dead.

Protesters have taken to the streets of Kenosha in the US state of Wisconsin as well several other cities from New York to Chicago over the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who had been charged with murdering two men during anti-racism demonstrations.

Road rage incidents involving a gun have been responsible for record levels of injury and death in the United States since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a report shows.

Covid-19 infections are rising in the United States again, and could soon hit a weekly average of 100,000 cases a day, a report says.

The three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery are facing what his attorney has described as public lynching in the 21st century.

Travelers at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International airport dove for cover after a gunshot was heard at one of the airport's security checkpoints.