Baltimore police are investigating the arrest of an 18-year-old who was pulled out of his home in an encounter that was captured on video and posted online. The video posted to social media shows Tionne Jones inside his home Saturday. He and two other occupants are arguing with an officer who has placed his hands…

Updated Wednesday, April 20, 2:10 p.m. EDT: Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced Wednesday that charges have been filed against three people directly involved in the Flint water crisis that has led to a number of health problems for Flint residents. Schuette charged Mike Glasgow, 40, the city’s laboratory and water-quality supervisor; Mike Prysby, 53,…

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton moved one step closer to securing the slot as their respective parties’ nominee for president after both won resounding victories in New York’s primary Tuesday night. CNN reports that Tuesday night’s wins for both Trump and Clinton changed the pace of the 2016 campaign, which has seen both…

It’s been a year since Freddie Gray died. On April 12, 2015, Baltimore police dragged the 25-year-old into a police van like a broken tree branch. His legs weren’t working. They trailed behind him like kite tails. Inside the van, he would fall into a coma. He was taken to a trauma center, where he…

Maybe Donald Trump should have stopped by a 7-Eleven to grab a cup of coffee before his Buffalo, N.Y., rally Monday. That way he would have been alert enough not to confuse the convenience store with 9/11. CNN obtained video of the blunder in which the GOP front-runner accidentally refers to “9/11” as “7-Eleven” on…

An openly gay pastor says he ordered a cake from a Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, that was only to have the phrase “Love Wins” written on it. When he returned to pick up the dessert, he says, he didn’t notice that the words written on the cake were actually, “Love Wins [F—].” In…

Police have arrested a 33-year-old Michigan man and charged him with bank robbery after he reportedly dressed up as a woman and robbed a bank. According to the Detroit Free Press, around 9:20 a.m. April 4, a man dressed as a woman entered a PNC Bank in Genoa Township, Mich., and announced the robbery. The…

The Washington Post series “Fatal Force,” which took a hard look at the number of deadly police shootings throughout the country last year, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton were two of the big winners when the 100th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday around 3 p.m. EDT.  Wesley Lowery, national reporter for the Post, who…

In December, 15-year-old Zaevion Dobson died shielding three friends from gunshots. The Knoxville, Tenn., native and Fulton High School football player was hailed as a hero by President Barack Obama. On Saturday, Zaevion’s 12-year-old cousin, Jajuan Latham, died of a gunshot to the head shortly after he attended a basketball game held to honor his slain…

A 41-year-old mother of three was arrested after she attempted to smuggle 1.72 kilograms of cocaine into Nigeria from Dubai, authorities say. According to the Daily Mail, Dorothy Onyekasi was on a flight from Dubai when a screening of passengers was conducted. Onyekasi was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, after authorities…