Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his people not to panic amid Russia’s ongoing advance in the Kharkiv region that’s jeopardizing a local city.

Ukrainians should trust in their army defending the country’s northeastern border area and not “yield to emotions” despite the fierce fight there and the “extremely difficult�...Read more

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 face just before 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.

Medics took the “Fargo” actor to Bellevue Hospital, where he was ...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 led to the first-ever Senate dress code. And others aren't as open about their health problems — which included a stroke ...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 the Lincoln Park quad, accusing the school of negotiating in “bad faith.”

The future of the nearly two-week old ...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.

It’s the latest warning in a steady escalation of U.S. concern about Israel’s conduct of its Gaza offensive. Blinken ...Read more

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 not restarted, Hopkins will conduct a “timely review of protestors’ key question of divestment,” according to the ...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 several of them ran forward looking for survivors,” said Barbara Shipley, the mid-Atlantic representative for a global ...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 trial.

Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer — whose payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 ...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 satellites is targeting an 8:53 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during four-hour ...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 repelled attempts of Moscow troops to break their defenses in the nation’s northeast, the situation has “significantly ...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 sits about 20 miles north of Mobile.

About 1,000 people had gathered for a party in the area, police told local Fox affiliate ...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 substitutes.

The vacancies, reported by the state for the first time, are one indicator of the severity of Pennsylvania’s ...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 tent, the most basic shelter, can cost $1,000. A ride from the southern city of Rafah, now in Israel’s crosshairs, to the ...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 at the canyon’s rim, the towering intellectual and civil rights activist described the sight that spread before his eyes. ...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.

These local landholders hold the key to a valuable solution as the world tries to slow climate change – restoring deforested ...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 early appearances. This year, the first round hit in February, a date so early that Michigan State University entomology ...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 snared an estimated 295,000 acre-feet of water since last October, or 96.3 billion gallons.

That’s enough water to supply...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in seven years, the city of Long Beach saw local homelessness decline year over year — but officials in next-door Orange County were disappointed to learn their unhoused population had continued to grow.

The divergent trends were documented in point-in-time counts conducted in January. Those surveys are ...Read more

When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, “even though most people rarely use enough sunscreen.”

At issue is not just whether people are using enough sunscreen, but what ...Read more

More than 500,000 Democrats in Pennsylvania’s bluest city didn’t vote in last month’s primary.

Turnout in Philadelphia, a perennial problem for Democrats, is sure to be higher in November. But the number of city voters who head to the polls could make or break President Joe Biden’s reelection chances.

With six months to go until a high...Read more