WASHINGTON — In late June, around the time the U.S. Supreme Court wraps up its current term, Justice Sonia Sotomayor will turn 70.

Is that old enough to retire?

For most Americans, that’s a simple question: More than 80% of Americans age 70 or older have left the labor force. Among those still working, a large share say they would retire ...Read more

Benny Gantz, an Israeli opposition leader in the country’s three-man war cabinet, said Saturday that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t offer a new plan to bring back hostages and end Hamas rule in Gaza by June 8, he’ll leave the government.

While such a move wouldn’t collapse the ruling coalition — it has 64 seats out of a...Read more

CHICAGO — Gladys Heredia, a 58-year-old diabetic grandmother from Peru, said city officials told her Wednesday that after June 10, she could no longer stay at a migrant shelter in the Streeterville area because it is shutting down. She said she’s worried about how her family will be able to survive.

Heredia, her daughter, and her daughter�...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Seizures of pills containing fentanyl have skyrocketed in the U.S., underscoring the country's struggle to curb deaths from a highly potent, synthetic opioid that has been detected in an array of drugs, including counterfeit versions of non-opioids such as Xanax.

Data showing more than a 2,300% increase in pills with fentanyl ...Read more

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was served a patriotic-themed birthday cake during his 80th birthday party in Palm Springs, California, Friday night — then served with a notice of indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.

Giuliani was indicted last month alongside 18 other allies of ...Read more

Despite shocking surveillance video, which seemingly shows Sean “Diddy” Combs violently assaulting his ex-girlfriend at a hotel in 2016, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office revealed it’s “unable” to bring charges against the hip-hop music mogul.

The office of DA George Gascón confirmed in a statement that it was “aware of ...Read more

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s condition remains serious but the most recent surgery helped to bring it closer to a “positive prognosis,” a minister said on Saturday.

Three days after he suffered multiple gunshot wounds in an assassination attempt, Fico, 59, is conscious and stable in an intensive-care ...Read more

Vladimir Putin is wrapping up a trip to China, where his warm ties with President Xi Jinping have led to booming trade and increasing defense coordination. More than two years since his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine began, it’s a far cry from efforts by the U.S. and its Group of Seven allies to isolate the Russian leader.

They imposed ...Read more

The winds that roared out of a supercell thunderstorm Thursday night leaving a deadly trail across Houston are on the rise in a warming climate, though researchers are still teasing out the exact relationship between a rapidly heating planet and relatively small-scale weather patterns.

Power remains out for almost 700,000 customers in the ...Read more

Light pollution has steadily intensified and expanded from urban areas, and with the advent of LED lighting, it is growing in North America by up to 10% per year, as measured by the visibility of stars in the night sky. In our recent study, we found that the glow from cities and urban outskirts can powerfully attract migratory birds, drawing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles police internal investigators dig deeper into one of the bigger scandals in recent department history, they have uncovered links between two troubled anti-gang units in the San Fernando Valley, multiple law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times.

When the controversy first spilled into public view in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO — Along the gentle rolling foothills nearby Nevada City is a village known as Yulića.

Across the 232 acres of this land, there are man-made ponds, two creeks that barely trickle through and, on top of a small mountain, a medicine rock used to grind medicine by Nisenan people.

This was once Nisenan land.

Today, the Nevada City ...Read more

Little red crustaceans pepper the shallow depths by the San Diego shoreline. The tuna crabs are back.

Tuna crabs, named after their most common predator — the tuna fish — have been seen by the thousands in Southern California in recent months. Charlotte Seid from Scripps Institution of Oceanography told NBC 7 San Diego that while this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The citation that Andrew Rice received in the mail looked like a traffic ticket, including a photo of his license plate. But the mail didn’t come from any police or city agency he recognized.

Back in July, one of his adult kids visited Temescal Canyon park near Pacific Palisades. A camera recorded Rice’s Prius rolling ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Penn students launched a new, short-lived, pro-Palestinian encampment Friday night, leading to multiple arrests. The encampment inside the school’s Fisher-Bennett Hall came one week after Philadelphia and campus police disbanded one that had lasted a little more than two weeks and had led to 33 arrests.

Members of the Penn ...Read more

A line of dangerous storms and flooding rains rolled over the US Gulf Coast, killing at least four people and leaving more than 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — without power while grounding hundreds of flights.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire called on businesses in the energy hub to tell non-essential workers to stay home...Read more

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatian lawmakers approved a coalition government that gives Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic a third term after he made a deal to include a right-wing nationalist party known for anti-immigration rhetoric.

The tilt to the right for the Balkan nation comes a month after Plenkovic suffered an electoral setback that gave him ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without resorting to fraud.

But, if he’s wrong, he also has backup plans to cling on to power, according to people who are in contact with the administration, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive political strategy....Read more

SpaceX lined up and knocked out another Starlink launch from the Space Coast on Friday night using a first-stage booster for a fleet-leading 21st time.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-59 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:32 p.m. Eastern time.

This ...Read more