DENVER — An outside firm is investigating workplace conditions within the Colorado Department of Human Services amid high turnover in its leadership team, a cascade of formal complaints and millions of dollars in settlements with departing staff.

The state in January contracted with Flynn Investigations Group, a Denver firm that specializes ...Read more

When Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, tore through Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018, it battered F-22 stealth fighter jets, destroyed hundreds of buildings and churned up 700,000 cubic yards of debris. The total cost of the damage approached $5 billion.

Now, Tyndall is being rebuilt as a super-resilient “installation of the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Advocates for a swift legislative response to the fatal shooting of two children inside a south Minneapolis church last summer knew gun control measures would be extremely difficult to push through the narrowly divided Legislature.

That’s proven true, with Republicans holding up every major gun bill in the evenly split House. ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Every few minutes, the quiet of a muggy spring evening in the Park Glen neighborhood in far north Fort Worth was broken by the clanging of pots, pans, air horns, and other noisemakers as residents looked skyward at unwanted guests.

These residents have gathered every night for the past few weeks to scare away migratory ...Read more

HAY SPRINGS, Neb.— The sun was just warming the horizon as Mark Pieper left his house near his cattle ranch on a crisp February morning.

It’s not unusual for the rancher to wake up early to tend to livestock, but at 5:45 a.m. this day his cattle wouldn’t come first. For the past 3½ years, three days a week, Pieper has made an early ...Read more

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is departing her post, becoming the latest member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to exit as he reshapes his team ahead of midterm elections.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” White House Communications Director Steven ...Read more

Satirical news site The Onion has moved to license the intellectual property of Alex Jones’ Infowars website in its latest attempt to take control of the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s platform.

A court-appointed receiver controlling Infowars parent Free Speech Systems LLC filed papers Monday in a Texas state court seeking approval of a ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Republican lawmaker is urging Gov. Mike Dunleavy not to veto a bill updating Alaska’s voting and election laws.

Dunleavy has until the end of the month to decide whether to sign or veto Senate Bill 64, which would create a ballot curing process that allows voters to fix minor mistakes on their ballots; allow the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two centuries after John Keats first put pen to paper to proclaim his love for his fiancée Fanny Brawne, blotted notes of the famed 19th-century poet recovered from the black market were on Monday displayed in a drab function room at the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

The very first letter Keats hand wrote to Brawne and ...Read more

María Corina Machado said she will return to Venezuela this year, a move that will test acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s tolerance for dissent and the U.S. commitment to back the opposition leader it once pledged to protect.

Machado expects to return before the end of 2026 and “absolutely” sees herself back in Venezuela soon, she told...Read more

Australia will invest billions of dollars to establish anti-drone defense systems as the wars in Iran and Ukraine underscore the potency of unmanned vehicles in a rapidly evolving global security environment.

Defense Industry Minister Pat Conroy announced two contracts on Tuesday in the first tranche of that effort: one is with Melbourne-based ...Read more

As fuel prices in South Carolina remain well above $3 a gallon, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said consumers could see some relief once “Iran is controlled.”

“They’re high, and I’d like to get them back down,” Graham said. “And I think they will come down when Iran is controlled.”

While South Carolinians are paying about a dollar ...Read more

The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning Monday for Central Florida as crews battled a 120-acre wildfire in northern Lake County that has been worsened by wind conditions.

The NWS station in Melbourne said the warning was for Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake, Volusia and Okeechobee counties because low humidity and gusty northeast ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the Trump administration on Monday over its decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding — widely considered the legal foundation for much of U.S. climate policy regulating greenhouse gas emissions for nearly 20 years — asserting that the move will worsen climate-driven extremes.

The criticism came two ...Read more

By Patrick J. McDonnell

MEXICO CITY — A gunman opened fire Monday on a pyramid in the famed Mexican archaeological site of Teotihuacán, fatally wounding a Canadian tourist and leaving at least six other people injured, authorities said.

The shooter later died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.

Images circulating on Mexican ...Read more

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is welcoming a renewed thaw in relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic after both countries agreed to resume dialogue, and the latter agreed to allow flights to partially resume.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of both nations, which share the island of Hispaniola and a ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan judge has declared unconstitutional a provision of state law that limits a woman and her patient advocate's right to carry out end-of-life directives if the woman is pregnant.

The law, Court of Claims Judge Sima Patel wrote, violates a woman's right to reproductive freedom that was enshrined in the state ...Read more

The former small-town Kansas mayor who made national headlines last year when he was charged with voting illegally as a noncitizen has reached a plea agreement that will keep him out of jail.

Joe Ceballos, 55, pleaded guilty to three counts of misdemeanor disorderly election conduct in Comanche County on Monday. He agreed to pay a $2,000 fine ...Read more