Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has declared a disaster emergency one day after at least four storms known as microbursts ripped through parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, downing trees and power lines and causing electrical outages and road closures.

A disaster emergency declaration allows the city to more quickly mobilize ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise move to overhaul his government and potentially install an energy executive as prime minister is the latest sign of the Ukrainian president’s determination to spare his war-weary nation a repeat of last winter’s hardships.

Zelenskyy said Sunday on social media that he planned to replace Prime Minister Yuliia...Read more

The Colorado Court of Appeals this month reversed a discovery sanction against the Denver District Attorney’s Office after a judge found prosecutors violated a man’s rights two years ago when they turned over an exculpatory 911 recording just six days before his jury trial was set to begin.

Denver District Court Judge Eric Johnson dismissed...Read more

President Donald Trump and his administration have continued to ramp up demands that states, including deep-red Idaho, alter their election laws to limit or eliminate mail-in voting and ensure that only eligible citizens cast ballots with threats of legal and financial penalties just months ahead of November’s general election.

The U.S. ...Read more

Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senior senator and foreign policy hawk who changed from a Donald Trump skeptic to one of the U.S. president’s strongest allies, died on Saturday. He was 71.

The cause of death was “a brief and sudden illness,” Graham’s office said in a post on X that offered no additional details. He was in Kyiv as ...Read more

The U.S. struck Iran for a third time in a week, prompting retaliatory attacks on at least five Arab nations as Washington and Tehran issued conflicting declarations over whether the Strait of Hormuz remains open to shipping.

The Islamic Republic responded early Sunday with drone and missile assaults on American allies across the Middle East, ...Read more

The discovery of golden mussels at Sacramento’s deepwater port late last month, though worrying, was not unexpected by researchers tracking the invasive species’ spread through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But the ongoing challenge for authorities, and for the state’s aquatic recreationalists, is keeping the destructive bivalve ...Read more

Kevin Warsh is about to make his first appearance before Congress as Federal Reserve chairman, and during two days of testimony he’ll have new U.S. inflation data to parse with lawmakers.

Tuesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing, which begins at 10 a.m. in Washington, will be preceded by June consumer price figures from the ...Read more

The U.S. struck Iran for a third time in a week, prompting retaliatory attacks on at least five Arab nations as Washington and Tehran issued conflicting declarations over whether the Strait of Hormuz remains open to shipping.

The Islamic Republic responded early Sunday with drone and missile assaults on American allies across the Middle East, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he spoke with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham shortly before his death in an interview on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, where he praised the political career of South Carolina’s influential senior senator.

Graham died Saturday evening after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office announced early Sunday morning....Read more

The Supreme Court's conservative justices say they decide cases based on the words and original history of the Constitution — and not on their personal or political views.

Following the lead set by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, they say they see history and "originalism" as a guiding principle to prevent judges from changing the ...Read more

South Africa said more than 53,000 foreign nationals had been processed for deportation or voluntary repatriation as authorities acted on pledges to speed up removals while warning vigilante groups to stop conducting illegal searches for undocumented foreigners.

The figure is more than double the roughly 25,000 migrants police said had returned...Read more

Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senior senator and foreign policy hawk who changed from a Donald Trump skeptic to one of the U.S. president’s strongest allies, died on Saturday. He was 71.

The cause of death was “a brief and sudden illness,” Graham’s office said in a post on X that offered no additional details. He was in Kyiv as ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A powerful animal sedative is slowly making its way into Minnesota’s illicit fentanyl supply, creating the potential to complicate overdose treatment and prompting warnings from health and drug officials.

The drug, medetomidine, sometimes referred to as “rhino tranq,” “mede,” or “dex,” is not approved for human use...Read more

A quarter millennium after its founding, the United States faces a stark choice that will define its future.

In the years ahead, the country can continue to follow the path blazed by President Donald Trump, who is attempting to bring states under the authority of a more powerful federal government led by him. Or it can move in a different ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — As a fast-moving fire chewed dry brush dangerously close to homes in Sorrento Valley last month, the sighting of a small drone flying in the airspace forced all firefighting aircraft to immediately leave the area.

San Diego police were able to find the person they believed to be flying the drone and get it to land, Sgt. Nicholas ...Read more

MIAMI — The warm and inviting living room of the Rosales family’s Kendall West home is decorated with intricately hand-painted egg shell dioramas. In a back bedroom, piles of old photo albums document the family matriarch’s youth in Cuba before she immigrated to Miami in the 1960s. A 1963 LIFE Magazine profile of Fidel Castro is buried in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A top informal adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is working as a crisis communications consultant for Lineage Logistics, the company whose cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights erupted in flames last month, inundating the surrounding neighborhood with toxic smoke and the odor of rotting food.

Yusef Robb, who runs the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The FDNY and the New York Police Department are coordinating on an investigation of last month’s massive fire at a historic Brooklyn church as an arson incident, FDNY sources said Saturday.

A person of interest was seen fleeing from the South Bushwick Reformed Church moments before the blaze broke out on June 19 around 1:20 p.m. ...Read more