Latest: A man opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing more than 20 people, including children, and wounding at least 20 others.

A group of cheerleaders have vowed to "take a knee" in the stadium tunnel when the US national anthem is played.

A four-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his grandfather, a sheriff in the US has said.

American police are investigating a murder in 1990 by a "killer clown" have arrested a woman who later married the widower of the victim.

A shooter has opened fire at a school in the US state of Washington, killing one person and injuring at least three others.

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Police in Texas said officers have found a submerged van in which a Houston family of six was swept away amid Storm Harvey.

Rising floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey sent thousands of people scrambling on to rooftops or higher ground in Houston, overwhelming rescuers who fielded countless desperate calls for help.

Singer Paolo Nutini has been found not guilty of drink-driving in his home town.

Latest:Five people have been killed in a shooting at a workplace in Orlando, Florida.

A candidate in a US congressional election has been charged with misdemeanor assault for grabbing a reporter by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

A newborn baby and its two-year-old sister have been found stabbed to death in North Carolina, police said.

Authorities have lifted an evacuation order for nearly 200,000 California residents who live below the crippled Oroville Dam that threatened to collapse and cause catastrophic flooding.

Evacuation orders affecting 188,000 people are in place until there is more information on the condition of the US's tallest dam's emergency overflow channel, a sheriff in California said.

A warehouse fire in California that killed 36 people does not appear to have been started intentionally and may have been caused by a refrigerator or other electrical appliance, investigators have said.

Security has been increased at metro stations across Los Angeles after what is being described as a "specific" threat of a terror attack today.

A third body has been found at the property of a South Carolina man linked to seven deaths and the kidnapping of a woman who was found chained inside a storage container.

A motorist shot during an altercation with police on a Hurricane Matthew evacuation route in South Carolina has died.

A firefighter has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death of his 23-month-old son who was left in a pick-up truck for eight hours.

A mountain biker who worked for the US Forest Service has been killed by a grizzly bear near a Montana national park.

A sheriff said charges are unlikely against a Nebraska couple after an alligator killed their two-year-old son by snatching him out of shallow water at a Walt Disney World beach, but the entertainment giant is reviewing whether to add alligator warning signs.

A search is under way for a two-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, authorities said.

The murders of eight family members in rural Ohio were sophisticated, planned executions, authorities have said.

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The Walking Dead is one of the most popular TV programmes on the planet. Its star Andrew Lincoln tells Kate Whiting about life on a show that’s also famously gruesome.

A teenage fugitive from Texas known for using an “affluenza” defence is to be returned to the US, along with his mother, after a mobile phone used to order a pizza gave away their location in Mexico.

A manhunt is under way for a wealthy Texas teenager, described at trial as being afflicted with “affluenza”, who apparently fled to avoid violating a probation deal that kept him out of prison for killing four in a drunken-driving crash.

Lamar Odom didn’t last long at the glittering intersection of championship success and Hollywood celebrity.

The family of US school gunman Chris Harper-Mercer have described their shock after the 26-year-old killed at least nine people before being fatally shot.

USA: A man who claimed at trial that his “evil twin” robbed 10 petrol stations, convenience and beer stores in eastern Pennsylvania must spend at least 60 years in prison.

A man suspected of shooting two US TV news journalists dead during a live broadcast has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

A Kentucky sheriff has defended a deputy officer who restrained two disabled elementary schoolchildren by using handcuffs, last autumn. The sheriff says the deputy did nothing wrong.

A defendant has been shot dead outside a court in Mississippi.

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The teenager who survived a small plane crash in Washington’s Cascade Mountains says she burned herself trying to pull her step-grandparents from the burning wreckage.