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Actor and native New Yorker Steve Buscemi was randomly punched in the face in Midtown Manhattan last week.

The 66-year-old star was walking on Third Ave. near E. 27th Street in Kips Bay when a stranger slugged him in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — John Fetterman isn't your typical U.S. senator.

Others don't tower over their colleagues — then again, no other senator is 6 feet-8 inches tall. Others don't come to work in a hoodie and shorts — which ...Read more

Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry.

The presumptive Republican ...Read more

CHICAGO — DePaul University has reached an “impasse” in negotiations with the school’s pro-Palestine encampment, administrators said Saturday night, as protest organizers worry they’ll be forcefully removed from ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel risks fueling a Hamas insurgency in postwar Gaza, cautioning that there will still be thousands of armed militants in the area even if Israel invades the city of Rafah.

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The Johns Hopkins University and protesters occupying a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Homewood campus have reached an agreement to end the demonstration immediately.

In exchange for the encampment being dismantled and...Read more

In the postmidnight darkness of March 26, as their ship lost power and crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the crew of the cargo ship Dali could only imagine the scope of the catastrophe unfolding.

“I understand ...Read more

More than five decades since a group of astronauts led by Charlton Heston took a ill-fated journey to a strange world, moviegoers are still ape over the "Planet of the Apes" franchise.

"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,"...Read more

One of the most bitter political feuds in the nation is expected to culminate in a Manhattan courtroom Monday with a showdown years in the making when Michael Cohen takes the stand at Donald Trump’s historic hush money ...Read more

SpaceX has lined up another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Sunday night on a southerly trajectory that will hug the Florida coast.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-58 mission carrying 23 of the internet ...Read more

Ukraine’s military chief described the situation in the Kharkiv region near the northeast border with Russia as “difficult,” as his troops struggle to hold back Kremlin advances there.

While Kyiv’s forces have ...Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden’s prospects for reelection in November are being depressed by persistent voter concerns over inflation, according to a new poll for the Financial Times.

High prices are one of the biggest ...Read more

Three people were killed and 12 others wounded in a shooting at a Saturday night party in southern Alabama.

Gunfire erupted around 10 p.m. near Stockton, local CBS affiliate WKRG reported. The town of about 550 people ...Read more

More than 2,100 teaching positions were vacant in Pennsylvania as of October, according to newly released state data — and almost a quarter of those spots were filled not with full-time teachers, but with long-term ...Read more

This is the fourth time Soha Abu Omara and her family have been forced to flee the fighting in Gaza. At least they have a tent.

Seven months into the war between Israel and Hamas, chaos is rising, and so are prices. A ...Read more

In his collection of essays and poems published in 1920 titled “Darkwater,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about his poignant encounter with the beauty of the Grand Canyon, the stupendous chasm in Arizona.

As he stood...Read more

Tropical forest landscapes are home to millions of Indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers. Just about every square meter of land is spoken for, even if claims are not formally recognized by governments.

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In a new paper in Nature Medicine, an international team of neurologists makes the compelling case that people with two copies of a gene called APOE4 aren’t just at risk of Alzheimer’s — they have a distinct form of ...Read more

DETROIT — Not all of the quintessential characteristics of a Michigan summer are as pleasant as campfires, cookouts and baseball games. There are the mosquitoes, too.

Those insects' itchy bites are making increasingly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Heavy rains this winter and spring sent torrential flows down local creeks and rivers, and L.A. County managed to capture and store a significant amount of that stormwater, officials say.

To be exact, they...Read more