Author: Cady Stanton, USA TODAY

LGBTQ students speak with USA TODAY about bills targeting classroom discussions and after-school activities around sexuality and gender identity.

Three Americans were found dead and a fourth was hospitalized Friday at Sandals Emerald Bay Resort on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas.

The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $10,000 reward for information on escaped inmate Casey Cole White and corrections officer Vicky White.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday issued a stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, on death row for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter.

Metal barriers have been installed around Shanghai blocking streets and entrances to residential buildings as a way to address a COVID-19 outbreak.

Pittsburgh police say over 90 rounds were fired at a party at an Airbnb, where two 17-year-olds were killed. They were identified late Sunday.

Police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting at the Columbiana Centre mall in Harbison that sent weekend shoppers fleeing for safety.

A Texas judge dismissed a murder charge Monday against a woman who was arrested in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion,” according to court documents.

As a record number of Americans identify as LGBTQ, museums on the community’s history and culture play a huge role after decades of marginalization.