LOS ANGELES — Skid Row's only post office has closed after what officials said were repeated break-ins and damage to employee property.

Homeless residents, many of whom don't have a car or are disabled, now have to travel outside Skid Row to get stamps or mail a package. The closure has prompted anger and frustration in a community that is ...Read more

DETROIT — A township treasurer in rural mid-Michigan fraudulently withdrew more than $747,000 in taxpayer money to build herself a vacation home and pay bills, according to federal court records that chronicle a rare and unusually lucrative public corruption case in west Michigan.

Former Ionia Township Treasurer Marilyn Harp, 74, is portrayed...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is urging New Yorkers, including a certain pop superstar and Super Bowl champ rumored to be tying the knot at Madison Square Garden, to stay inside amid the heatwave coming for the city.

Mamdani addressed “all New Yorkers” at a press conference Tuesday, just ahead of the heat dome bringing “extraordinary ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than a dozen new laws take effect in Illinois on Wednesday, touching everything from transportation and education to prisons and liquor licenses.

Chief among them is the state’s new $55.9 billion spending plan, which covers the budget year running through June 30, 2027. While the new budget won’t raise the state’s sales ...Read more

Oswadeliz Núñez Ramírez found her son dead following an intense five-day search throughout the areas of La Guaira and Caracas, Venezuela. The young man was part of a group of 146 migrants deported from the United States who arrived in the South American country on the same day two powerful earthquakes struck the country last week.

An officer...Read more

Dozens of new Kansas laws go into effect on July 1. On Wednesday, 124 bills adopted by the Kansas Legislature this spring will be added to the statute book.

Some pieces of legislation were signed into law by Gov. Laura Kelly. Others became law without Kelly’s signature or were enacted over her veto by Republicans in the House and Senate.

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Millions of Americans are facing heat advisories ahead of the July Fourth holiday as a major heat wave spreads across large parts of the central and eastern United States.

For many people, this is the time of year for cookouts, beach trips and other outdoor activities. Soccer fans are packing into stadiums for World Cup matches. But ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal officials have set a date to round up and relocate 450 wild horses they say are damaging Mono Lake’s famed limestone tufas and posing a threat to drivers. The move is hailed by environmentalists but heartbreaking for tribes and horse lovers who have fought to stop it.

On July 8, the Inyo National Forest will begin ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic tax writers are interested in changing how collegiate and professional athletics are handled in the tax code — but they’re in the early stages of discussing what those changes might look like.

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee during a nearly four-hour hearing Tuesday expressed a desire ...Read more

U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held positive discussions in Qatar and progress is being made on technical talks with Iran, according to a senior administration official, as the countries seek to turn an interim peace deal into a permanent end to the war.

The two Americans were in Doha on Tuesday as part of ongoing indirect ...Read more

France will hold the first round of its upcoming presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a potential run-off set for May 2 if no candidate secures a majority.

Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon announced the dates following a cabinet meeting Wednesday in Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron, who was first elected in 2017 and re-elected in ...Read more

Ukraine has expanded the range and intensity of its missile strikes inside Russia, triggering alerts across nearly half of the regions in the world’s largest country so far this year.

Missile threats were declared in at least five regions of the Volga Federal District southeast of Moscow in the past week alone, as well as in the southern ...Read more

DETROIT — It's been three weeks since the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge was officially completed, and the opening of the new $4.7 billion span is as clear as Detroit River water.

During the week of June 8, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority was making plans to formally open the new Canadian-financed Detroit-to-Windsor...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a jury failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a man accused of igniting what became the massive Palisades fire, prosecutors immediately pledged to try again, but legal experts say the U.S. Attorney’s Office will have to reassess its court strategy if it hopes to win over a new jury.

Given the surprise split of last ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — A new report identifying Connecticut as one of the most segregated states in the country did not surprise state lawmakers, educators and local leaders.

In fact, it solidified what they have known about the state for many decades.

Economic and racial segregation in schools resulted from a history of discriminatory housing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Skid Row's only post office has closed after what officials said were repeated break-ins and damage to employee property.

Homeless residents, many of whom don't have a car or are disabled, now have to travel outside Skid Row to get stamps or mail a package. The closure has prompted anger and frustration in a community that is ...Read more

Alea Bates wasn’t ready to leave Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s main hospital four days after a stranger shot her seven times at close range. Miraculously, hospital records show, none of the bullets damaged her internal organs.

But after surgery, Bates said, she couldn’t get out of bed or walk to the bathroom without help. She ...Read more