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Residents in Vincent, Ala., crowded an emergency council meeting on Thursday as city officials decided to disband the local police force.

After a police officer sent a racist text, a town dissolved its police department

After officials in Vincent, Ala., fired the police chief and assistant chief, the city council voted to end the department entirely. But the mayor says it's only a temporary measure.

<em></em>Flags at the Washington Monument commemorate Americans who died from COVID-19. In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row.

Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

FILE - A visitor prays at a memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in the Fourth of July mass shooting at the Highland Park War Memorial in Highland Park, Ill.

The Highland Park shooting suspect is indicted on 117 charges

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery,

Arizona's reinstated ban on abortions leaves providers and patients confused

Arizona courts reinstated a Civil War era ban on nearly all abortions. Now there is a bipartisan call for a special legislative session as providers and patients are confused and anxious.

After racist remarks, Nury Martinez resigns as president of the LA City Council

Some Los Angeles City Council members are facing increasing pressure to resign after a leaked recording revealed racist and derogatory comments made during a conversation with a local labor leader.

Scholar Mike Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book <em>City of Quartz</em> and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

Writer, truck driver, meat cutter and prophet of compassion Mike Davis dies at 76

Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book City of Quartz and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

Tennessee lawmakers to vote whether to expel 3 Democrats over gun control protest

Lawmakers in Tennessee today will decide whether to remove three Democratic House members for chanting alongside protesters demanding gun control in the chamber last week.

A candlelight vigil for Tyre Nichols in Memphis is held in January.

A judge blocks the release of additional footage of the beating death of Tyre Nichols

The 20-some hours of video and audio footage were set to be released Wednesday alongside other documents from the city's investigation into the officers involved in the 29-year-old Black man's death.

The casket of Irvo Otieno is carried out of First Baptist Church of South Richmond on March 29 after the celebration of life for Irvo Otieno in North Chesterfield, Va. The 28-year-old Black man died after he was pinned to the floor by seven sheriff's deputies and several others while he was being admitted to a mental hospital.

An autopsy finds Irvo Otieno, held down by deputies and hospital workers, asphyxiated

His death last month at a Virginia mental hospital has sparked outrage and led to second-degree murder charges against 10 defendants.

A man attends a commemoration ceremony honoring 4 years since a shooter killed 11 worshippers at Tree of Life Synagogue, America's deadliest antisemitic attack. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Antisemitic GDL network grows larger as violence against Jewish Americans abounds

Active around the country, the group has focused on Florida in recent months, with incidents in Daytona, Ormand Beach and South Orlando.

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