COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jack Bass, journalist, historian and professor, whose work chronicled South Carolina’s civil rights era and the state’s transformation from a Democratic Party segregationist enclave to a hard-right Republican bastion, has died. He was 91.

Over six decades, first as a student reporter at the University of South Carolina, ...Read more

NEW YORK — An accused serial killer who treated his building within a Brooklyn NYCHA complex as a hunting ground, brutally killing three elderly neighbors, pleaded guilty to the murders before a Brooklyn judge on Friday, according to law enforcement officials.

Kevin Gavin, 71, pleaded guilty to committing the killings, all in the same Powell ...Read more

Two U.S. agents who died after an operation to dismantle a suspected Mexican narcotics laboratory had no permission to be carrying out operations of this kind, according to the nation’s security Cabinet.

One of the pair entered Mexico on a visitor’s visa, while the other had diplomatic status, the Cabinet said Saturday, in a statement.

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CHICAGO — One Chicago police officer was killed and another critically injured after they were shot at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital Saturday morning by a man they brought in for treatment at the emergency room, according to police and hospital officials. The suspect was taken into custody.

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said...Read more

President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip to Pakistan by his top envoys for negotiations over the Iran conflict, raising questions about the durability of the current ceasefire.

The president on Saturday told his son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff to skip the trip, adding in a social media post that there has been “...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for a company seeking to extend a natural gas pipeline through South Carolina are threatening to take property owners to court if the landowners don’t grant access to their property.

Letters were sent earlier this month to multiple South Carolina residents who have not given Elba Express LLC permission to survey ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The body of a missing University of South Florida student was found Friday on the Howard Frankland Bridge and authorities continued to look for another as they arrested a man described as a suspect in the case.

Zamil Limon, a doctoral student who’d been missing eight days, was found dead Friday morning along the bridge that ...Read more

CHICAGO — A North Side hospital was placed on lockdown Saturday morning amid reports of an active shooter who had wounded two police officers. The local alderman said a suspect had been taken into custody.

Chicago police did not comment on the incident beyond calling the incident a “police Involved shooting,” adding that details would be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sacramento officials came to Southern California this week for the first public meeting since they issued new proposed rules on how people in fire-prone neighborhoods will be allowed to landscape their yards.

In contrast to prior proposals from the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, many who attended were ... OK ...Read more

U.S.-Iranian talks on ending the conflict that has closed the Strait of Hormuz seem unlikely to make major progress soon, a Republican lawmaker said.

“I don’t see any big breakthrough in the near term,” Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, a former chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security panels, said Saturday on Bloomberg This Weekend...Read more

Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he won’t take up his seat in parliament following his party’s landslide defeat in this month’s election but wants to stay on as Fidesz’s leader to lead a process of “renewal.”

The most dominant figure in Hungarian politics since the fall of Communism in 1989, Orban has sat in ...Read more

There are lots of things that can move the stock market, from economic data, to Federal Reserve pronouncements, to corporate developments. But for the past 15 months, traders’ fortunes have been largely tethered to the whims of a single person: President Donald Trump.

Since taking office last January, Trump’s comments to reporters in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson remains uncertain about the possibility of an execution in Nevada, even after saying he wanted three convicted killers put to death.

“I am a gambler, but I’m not sure how much I bet on this one,” he said.

Wolfson said executions are more likely now than in previous years because ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As firefighter after firefighter testified about their actions during the Lachman fire, a clear theme emerged — the Los Angeles Fire Department’s culture of absolute obedience.

One told a boss about red hot coals and smoldering ash. Another warned that warm weather increased the risk of a flareup. After taking their concerns...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The Navy is rapidly expanding its efforts in San Diego to develop small, fast, unmanned sea drones to help the U.S. adapt to the swift and dynamic ways naval warfare is changing throughout the world.

The drones are designed to perform autonomously or via remote control while doing such things as stalking submarines, spotting mines...Read more

MIAMI — Weeks before the clash between Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump began, the pope called on all Catholics and people of good will to contact their political leaders to demand an end to the war in Iran. The plea came days after Trump threatened to destroy the entire Iranian civilization — an attack the pope described as “truly ...Read more

Elon Musk dropped his fraud claims against OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, narrowing the scope of his lawsuit against his business rivals on the eve of trial.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Friday agreed to Musk’s request to “streamline” the case, leaving just two claims to proceed to trial of the 26 ...Read more

A man accused of stabbing two neighbors and slashing his own father in a wild brawl after a couple’s dog peed on his front yard was released without bail on Friday.

Judge Anthony Battisti ordered Akeem Alexander, 34, released after he pleaded not guilty to assault, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon at his arraignment in ...Read more