Attacks on commercial vessels off the Black Sea’s western coast are on the rise, threatening already-choked trade flows in the region while testing NATO’s readiness to react.

Two general cargo ships were hit by air and naval drones overnight in the exclusive economic zone of Bulgaria, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ...Read more

A week after 10 people disappeared from a capsized migrant boat between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, the U.S. Coast Guard and Dominican Republic Navy rescued 61 people from a similarly overloaded vessel in roughly the same area, officials say.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesler spotted the 30-foot blue vessel shortly before 6 a....Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia city agencies have launched a multipronged planning and outreach effort to ensure tens of thousands of city residents don’t lose healthcare access as changes to Medicaid take effect now and in the coming months, according to top officials in Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration.

First Deputy Managing ...Read more

Yemen’s internationally-recognized government, backed by Saudi Arabia, claimed to have regained territory from the Houthis, as fighting in the region near the Bab el-Mandeb strait intensifies.

The Yemeni armed forces said they took control of the Red Sea city of Mokha on Monday after battles with the Iran-backed Houthis, according to Saba, a ...Read more

Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the country’s first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa.

The Kenyan citizen fell ill in Congo a month ago and traveled by road to Uganda, Health Secretary Aden Duale told reporters in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has launched an "enforcement action" against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing it of hiding sensitive student information from parents in relation to a student's gender identity. The administration also is investigating alleged violations of parents' right to safeguard their children from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pressure has intensified on Los Angeles Unified to follow through with emergency budget cuts after a California fiscal crisis oversight team concluded that the school district is at "high risk" for insolvency — and must move quickly to avoid losing control over budget decisions.

The state's school Fiscal Crisis and Management ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami has struck down a decades-old federal law barring people who are U.S. citizens from voting in federal elections, ruling that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority by imposing a voter qualification that belongs to the states.

The decision comes as the Trump administration has made non-citizen voting...Read more

SEATTLE — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed an order issued last week that reinstated the U.S. attorney in Western Washington who was fired by President Donald Trump.

Roger Rogoff, who was appointed to the post by the 17 sitting federal judges in July only to be fired by Trump less than an hour later, won the post back on Thursday ...Read more

Washington might see its legislative maps get redrawn once again, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a petition related to a long-running dispute over the state's 2020 redistricting process.

It won't happen before the 2026 midterm elections. But Monday's development is the latest twist in the saga of Washington's redistricting ...Read more

Germany’s far-right party secured a bigger-than-expected majority for the top parliamentary post in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, giving it a firm foothold as it builds support to take power in a regional government.

The Alternative for Germany installed its candidate, Tobias Rausch, with 48 votes in the 83-seat assembly in Magdeburg ...Read more

Belgian-born Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping discover particles from deep space using a detector buried beneath the Antarctic ice.

Halzen, 82, will receive a 12 million-krona ($1.2 million) award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said in a statement Tuesday. He is currently affiliated ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to increase the odds a system that formed in the Gulf could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure, dubbed Invest 92L, has more organized showers and thunderstorms in the ...Read more

The pitches from Temple University came almost daily.

“You belong at Temple,” one email insisted. Another said, “Your future starts at Temple.”

Day, who asked that her last name not be used to protect her privacy, sifted through the barrage of emails as a Middletown, Del., high school senior graduating in 2024. She was ultimately ...Read more