The loud popping sounds outside alarmed Dervie Mapp enough to make her bolt out of bed. She ran to the kitchen window of her Brooklyn apartment and looked out across the construction site next door. The 67-year-old retiree watched helplessly as a three-story building on the other side of the worksite collapsed,

Two children and two construction workers were among those killed, New York City officials said.

Video shows emergency crews searching the site of a building collapse in Brooklyn that killed at least eight people.

A New York City building collapsed Wednesday, and people were trapped in the rubble, the fire department said. Firefighters were called to the three-story structure in Brooklyn around 4 p.m. News helicopter footage showed dozens of firefighters scouring the debris,

Large numbers of police in tactical gear poured into ​a Washington, DC, neighborhood on ‌Thursday morning, where police said an active shooter was barricaded in a ​building. At least four people ​had been wounded,

The suspect, according to sources, is barricaded inside an apartment.

At least four people were shot on Thursday morning in what police are describing as an “active” scene in Washington, DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood, police have said.Authorities are asking people to avoid the area near 15th St. NW and P St. NW. The DC Metro Police Department’s Emergency Response Team is responding. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports.

Four people were shot early Thursday in Washington’s Logan Circle neighborhood, about one mile north of the White House, as police responded to an active shooter across multiple locations.

When Scott Colom is sworn into the U.S. Senate in January, he will not be the first Black senator from Mississippi to make history.

Scott Colom will become Mississippi's third Black senator. The other two served during the Reconstruction era.

Democrat Scott Colom won a Mississippi Senate seat in a historic upset, beating Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. CNN’s Annie Grayer explains how Black women became a key voting bloc in the state. Discover more videos,

Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot-counting process, giving the state its first Black U.

William Blair analyst Sebastien Naji downgraded Nvidia’s stock to market perform in an early Thursday note, before the official announcement of CEO Jensen Huang's resignation. He expected the development to "be a significant overhang" on the stock.

A drop for Nvidia’s stock is pulling the U.S. market lower Thursday, threatening to upend the boom in artificial intelligence technology that carried Wall Street to record after record in recent years.

Major U.S. equities benchmarks ended lower Thursday, after Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia sparked fresh concerns about the artificial-intelligence trade and a jump in Treasury yields weighed on the stock market.

Huang reportedly carried out an extramarital affair with an alleged spy.

A South Carolina man accused of burying his 11-month-old son in a dog crate in a clump of scrubby pines was denied bond Thursday.Michael Comer showed no remorse for attempting to kill his son, Koah, and tried to flee the state,

When an 11-month-old infant was reported missing in South Carolina, dozens of first responders combed the countryside for the “bright boy with reddish blond hair” that the sheriff’s office said had disappeared while his grandmother ran errands.

Koah Sharp, who was reported missing Monday in Lexington County, just west of Columbia, spent about 24 hours underground, authorities said. Sheriff Jay Koon said the child was released from the hospital Tuesday night and was being cared for by relatives.

The father of the baby has been charged with attempted murder, authorities said.

Former federal appellate judge Richard Posner, a prodigious legal scholar who pioneered the use of economic theory to resolve legal questions, has died

The jurist wrote thousands of opinions as well as scholarly articles, more than 50 books.

Richard Posner, a former federal appellate judge in Chicago, has died at age 87, the University of Chicago Law School announced Wednesday.

A man considered one of the most influential legal scholars of his time has died. Richard Posner was a former federal appellate judge in Chicago and a longtime faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School.