DETROIT — A judge dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges Monday against six Michigan Department of Corrections employees in the death of a prisoner who lost more than 50 pounds in 15 days and died while being restrained in 2019.

WASHINGTON _ Black Americans, scarred by a history of mistrust of the media, have little faith that news organizations will do a good job of covering their communities fairly and that’s not likely to change any time soon, according to a Pew Research Center study released Tuesday.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. − Prosecutors filed two felony charges Monday against a California sheriff's deputy accused of carrying more than 100 pounds of fentanyl in his vehicle. They also alleged for the first time that he had likely ties to a Mexican drug cartel.

WASHINGTON - No, Donald Trump did not buy a gun during his trip to South Carolina on Monday - he only said he wanted to.

Social media lit up after the Trump campaign posted a video of him admiring a gun with a likeness of him branded onto it. A now-deleted post said the former president "purchases" a Glock, which was dubbed "Trump 45."

For the second straight week, "Monday Night Football" featured a double-dose of football games.

Week 3 in the NFL wrapped up with the Philadelphia Eagles moving to 3-0 with a thorough defeat of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengals avoided an 0-3 hole with Joe Burrow able to play in the team's win over the Los Angeles Rams in a Super Bowl 56 rematch.

LOS ANGELES — Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the popular "NCIS" 40 years later, has died. He was 90.

McCallum died Monday of natural causes surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital, CBS said in a statement.

For two weeks in a row, the head coach of the opposing team has taken a personal verbal shot at Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders.

“Three weeks in a row,” Sanders said Monday in an interview with USA TODAY Sports. “We’re not counting.”

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan woman was sentenced to up to five years in prison Monday for crashing her car into a retention pond while driving under the influence and killing her three sons.

Sixty-five percent of Gen Zers and 74% of millennials say they believe they are starting further behind financially than earlier generations at their age.

For many young Americans, achieving the financial stability of their parents’ generation feels impossible. 

Longer airport lines. Hazardous drinking water. Shuttered national parks.

The disruptions that come with shutdowns of the federal government have only become more familiar to Americans in recent years. If congressional Republicans fail to cut a deal by this weekend, the country could see its 22nd shutdown in the last five decades.