DELBARTON, W.Va. — A half-dozen cars had been in the queue for nearly four hours by the time the House of Hope mobile food pantry line began to move. Seventy or so more idled behind them by 11:30 a.m., when the food distribution began.

The plan was to begin handing out boxes of groceries at 11, but the Facing Hunger Foodbank truck delivering ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shadow gingerly places one taloned foot, then the other, on Jackie as she hunkers down on the nest.

With Big Bear Lake glittering in the distance, he raises each foot in a kneading motion — evoking a bald eagle massage.

“Somehow, it says everything about their bond,” reads the caption on the 15-second video posted to ...Read more

King Mohammed VI of Morocco named his only son to a key army role, signaling a milestone for the crown prince’s preparations to eventually take the throne of a four-century-old ruling dynasty.

The 62-year-old monarch appointed Prince El Hassan as the army general staff’s coordinator of offices and services, the royal Cabinet said in a ...Read more

Firefighters battling the Trinity fire in San Bernardino County, California, on Friday caught a glimpse of a rare phenomenon.

A mini tornado of ash, embers and debris, known as an ash devil, spun up into the air from the remains of a fire that the crews had already put out.

“An ash devil is not a common occurrence,” said Christopher Prater...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will review Iran’s latest peace offer but wouldn’t rule out restarting strikes on Tehran’s military targets should the regime “misbehave.”

Trump, speaking to reporters in Florida on Saturday, said he had been briefed on the “concept of the deal” offered by Iran, but moments later ...Read more

BOSTON — It has been a good year for the North Atlantic right whale, according to scientists at the New England Aquarium.

The calving season, from mid-November until mid-April in the Southeast, generated “positive news” for the critically endangered species, as it produced 23 mother-calf pairs, the fourth-highest count ever.

So far this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to cut the U.S. military presence in Germany by more than the 5,000-troop drawdown announced so far, even as Republican allies and NATO countries questioned the move.

“We’re going to cut way down,” Trump told reporters Saturday as he boarded Air Force One in Florida, without offering ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two teenage girls died after being trapped in a fast-moving fire in a Bronx apartment building they both were just visiting, leaving their families shattered, the Daily News has learned.

Nakayla Moreno, 19, was staying with her boyfriend when a five-alarm fire ripped through the Belmont building about 1:30 p.m. April 21, while ...Read more

The Mexican governor charged by the U.S. over alleged drug-related crimes stepped down temporarily while investigations are underway.

Sinaloa governor Ruben Rocha Moya said in a video message posted Friday night on social media that he’d asked his state’s local Congress for a leave of absence as Mexican authorities consider the accusations...Read more

BOSTON — Boston’s new $318,000 fire commissioner, Rodney Marshall, lives in Canton, but the mayor’s office said he wouldn’t be violating the city’s residency requirement unless he fails to move to the Hub within the next six months.

Marshall made history when he was appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu last month as the city’s first Black...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a first, California's police accreditation body is weighing whether to strip two LAPD officers of their license to carry a badge over a controversial shooting.

The officers, José Zavala and Julio Quintanilla, shot and killed a suicidal man armed with a knife in 2021. A civilian advisory board for the Commission on Police ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect two years ago, advocates expected a sharp rise in women traveling for abortion care to states with less restrictive laws. While many did travel, the surprising increase occurred in Florida women using medication from out-of-state telehealth providers to end their ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There are two starkly different narratives of what took place during an April 7 immigration operation in the San Joaquin Valley, when ICE agents fired multiple shots at a Salvadoran man, sending him to a hospital.

According to Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal agents fired defensive...Read more

MIAMI — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa delivered a forceful call to action Friday before members of South Florida’s exiled community, urging them to intensify pressure on Caracas while warning that the country’s political crisis remains far from resolved.

Speaking at an event held at the Aloft Hotel in Doral, a hub for ...Read more

MIAMI — When the architect of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new voting maps sat down to draw new congressional boundaries, he started with the goal of blowing up a majority Black district in South Florida.

Jason Poreda, a staffer in the governor’s office, told lawmakers this week that breaking up the Broward and Palm Beach district first ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Shoppers and employees at a Hyattsville shopping center were potentially exposed to measles on April 24, health officials say, when a Washington resident confirmed to have measles visited.

In addition to several locations in the nation’s capital, including parts of Dulles International Airport and several buses, the measles ...Read more

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te arrived at Eswatini on Saturday after an earlier trip was derailed by several China-friendly African countries closing their airspace to his aircraft.

The trip follows Eswatini Vice Prime Minister Thulisile Dladla’s visit to Taiwan on April 30 as a special envoy after flight restrictions forced the ...Read more

MIAMI — For decades, Black Floridians organized block by block to claim a right long denied to them — the vote.

Civil rights leaders like Harry T. Moore and Mary McLeod Bethune built statewide networks to register Black voters, while Miami activists such as Charles Hadley led door-to-door campaigns that transformed political participation ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Monroe Mayor Robert Burns thanked the community Friday after he said a venomous copperhead snake bit his wife, Lauren.

“Thank you all for your support and prayers,” Burns said on social media site X. “We cherish all the love. Keep praying!”

The mayor revealed the bite on social media Thursday. “Word has gotten out...Read more

Dramatic temperature jumps marked this March and April in the U.S. Northeast, making it hard to know what to dress for: chilly or sweltering conditions? Researchers have concluded that wild temperature swings are becoming more common as the world heats up.

That’s changing how we experience spring, with plants blooming sooner and consumers ...Read more