PHILADELPHIA — Jillian Emory of the Fairmount neighborhood spent years connecting to her Italian roots. She learned the language, studied and worked abroad, and hired a genealogist to help track down her family members in Italy.

“I genuinely want to be a part of that culture,” she said. “I speak the language and have spent a lot of time...Read more

Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most-threatened populations now displaying a surprising diversity.

“It still looks like they’re in bad shape, but if you dig further, we’re actually finding that there’s recovery from the bottleneck,” study co-author Collin Ahrens...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Diego Dulanto and Alexander Vallejos do not know each other, but they share the same immigration status and the anxiety that comes with it.

Both are recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the 2012 executive action signed by former President Barack Obama that protects people brought to the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A corporate tax policy that costs California billions in lost tax revenue each year could be coming to an end as the state struggles to backfill federal cuts and resolve a looming budget deficit.

The proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 1790, would repeal the so-called "water's edge" tax break, a filing option that allows ...Read more

In at least six statehouses this year, lawmakers are revisiting a long-running debate over whether guns should be allowed on college campuses.

Republican lawmakers in Florida, Louisiana, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming have introduced bills that would allow students, staff or visitors with concealed carry permits — and in some ...Read more

Two-term Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Chicago defeated a pair of experienced members of Congress in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat long held by retiring Sen. Dick Durbin.

The Associated Press called the race for Stratton just before 9:40 p.m., a short time after five-term U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg and ...Read more

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces a diplomatic balancing act at a summit this week with Donald Trump, after the U.S. president called on Japan to deploy warships to help secure the war-stricken Strait of Hormuz — before abruptly dropping the demand.

Takaichi’s first trip to Washington on Thursday since winning a sweeping mandate has been ...Read more

Israel’s killing of Ali Larijani, a veteran Iranian politician known for his pragmatism and long experience helming national security, leaves the Islamic Republic’s wartime leadership largely in the hands of hardliners who may be less likely to seek a diplomatic pathway out of the war.

Larijani was an insider of the Islamic Republic’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A housing bill pushed by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate and supported by the White House could open up opportunities for Marylanders, its supporters say. But the state’s lone Republican remains concerned that it needs to be changed before it’s sent to President Donald Trump’s desk.

The bill, titled the 21st ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Prosecuting attorneys from across California, including from Sacramento County, cheered a state Senate committee’s passage of a bill Tuesday they say will prevent the release of violent criminals through the state’s mental health court diversion program.

The bill, carried by Assembly member Stephanie Nguyen, D-Elk ...Read more

Two-term Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton held an early lead Tuesday as vote counting continued in the hotly contested Democratic primary race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.

With 66% of the estimated vote tallied in the race for Illinois’ first open Senate seat in 16 years, Stratton, of Chicago, had 38.9% of the vote to 33.5% for U.S. ...Read more

The Pacific Northwest saw a dramatic spike in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at the end of 2025, particularly in the Portland area and in less populous parts of Washington with agricultural communities, new data from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights show.

From a recent low point of fewer than 250 arrests across ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew a parallel between the Palestinian and Irish struggles on Tuesday — though he also hit a St. Patrick’s Day quagmire as he faced questions over his position on Irish unification.

Mamdani, whose support of Palestinian rights is central to his political identity, noted that Irish leaders like former ...Read more

SEATTLE — Thousands of Washington students walked out of school in February to protest increasing federal immigration enforcement, mirroring their peers speaking out across the nation. While hundreds of South King County and Seattle students have participated in peaceful demonstrations, a handful of students in Burien, Marysville, Lake Stevens...Read more

MIAMI — The FBI case agent assigned to the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, testified this week in Miami federal court that he never dusted for fingerprints or swabbed for DNA at the crime scene more than four years ago.

“We did the best we could while we were at the residence, but timing was a factor,” FBI special ...Read more

CHICAGO — Two-term Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton took an early lead Tuesday as vote counting began in the hotly contested Democratic primary race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.

With nearly 40% of the estimated vote tallied in the race for Illinois’ first open Senate seat in 16 years, Stratton of Chicago had 38.8% of the vote to 32.6...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia vaccine experts on Tuesday called a federal court decision reversing changes to the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a win for public health.

But discord between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under his leadership and medical ...Read more

Maryland law enforcement leaders gained some national attention in their fight against a law banning formal agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.

Lt. Col. Allen West, the executive director of the national conservative legal nonprofit American Constitutional Rights Union, met with officials in Harford and Carroll ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, abruptly resigned Tuesday, becoming the most senior national security official to break publicly with the Trump administration over its military campaign against Iran.

In a statement posted on social media, Kent said he “cannot in good conscience” continue ...Read more