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Washington — The U.S. Secret Service handed over the cellphones of two dozen agents involved in the agency’s response to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the summer, according to three sources familiar with the matter.  The …

A former suburban Chicago police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and seriously wounding the man’s girlfriend, has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced on Thursday. In a news release, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s …

Sheri Thompson is struggling to stretch her family’s weekly $200 food budget with grocery prices nationwide up 13.5% since last August.  “My grandson, he comes in and he says, ‘Nana, we should be on lunchtime by now.’ And I said, ‘No. We actually skipped lunch. We’re on dinner,'” Thompson said.  …