Three officers on a US Marshals task force serving a warrant for a person wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and five other officers were wounded in a shootout on Monday at a North Carolina home, police said.

Kinsley White, six, was grazed by a bullet on the left cheek in the shooting, but was released from hospital according to her mother who was grazed in the elbow

A man in North Carolina shot and wounded a six-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his garden, according to neighbours and the girl’s family.

Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter watched a 20-second portion of body camera video with the family of Andrew Brown Jr on Monday.

US President Donald Trump’s campaign committee are trying to block North Carolina election officials from enforcing rule changes that could boost the number of ballots counted in the battleground state.