Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced a Justice Department investigation into the police in Louisville, Ky., and the county government on Monday. The inquiries show the Biden administration seeking stricter oversight of local departments amid a national outcry over police abuse.

Chantel Cherry-Lassiter, a lawyer for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who was killed by sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City, N.C., held an impassioned news conference after viewing a 20-second snippet of footage showing his final moments.

Adm. Yudo Margono, chief of staff of the Indonesian Navy, said on Saturday that divers had located debris near where the vessel was last seen before it went missing three days ago with 53 people on board.

At his climate summit on Friday, President Biden championed the economic benefits and new jobs that would come from proposed initiatives to combat climate change and enhance renewable energy.

At President Biden's climate summit on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel pledged to reduce Israel's carbon footprint by investing in more renewable energy and eliminating its use of coal by 2025.

The Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spoke on the second day of President Biden's climate summit about producing more climate-efficient technology that would also be cost-effective.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft took off Friday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts who will begin their six-month stay in space.

President Biden hosted 40 world leaders in the Leaders Summit on Climate on Friday.

The family of Daunte Wright joined faith leaders, politicians and the relatives of other Black Americans killed by the police to honor his memory at a funeral service in Minneapolis on Thursday.

On Wednesday night, protests continued in Columbus, Ohio, over the death of Ma'Khia Bryant, who was shot and killed by a police officer on Tuesday.