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Peru's economic miracle is at stake as voters head to polls
Peruvians are heading to the polls on Sunday in what is expected to be a tight presidential runoff, with the model behind one of Latin America’s most stable economies at stake.
Voters will decide whether they finally give a shot to three-time runner-up Keiko Fujimori, a conservative seen as the guarantor of a successful economic model ...Read more
Pair of new wildfires crop up in Boundary Waters
MINNEAPOLIS -- Fire crews are working to extinguish two new wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which the U.S. Forest Service discovered Saturday afternoon, threatening the safety of visitors in the immediate area, who are being asked to stay away.
The Forest Service believes the fires, both east of Crane Lake, started on ...Read more
President Trump storms off NBC interview after claiming California election was 'rigged'
President Donald Trump shut down an interview with NBC News after host Kristen Welker pushed back on his claims that the election in California on Tuesday was rigged.
During a lengthy interview in Wisconsin that aired on “Meet the Press” Sunday, Trump echoed claims he made in recent days that officials in California were “cheating,” ...Read more
Armenians vote for parliament with Russian ties in focus
Armenians voted in a parliamentary election that will determine whether Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan can secure a mandate to reorient the country toward Europe even as tensions with Russia are on the rise.
Turnout reached almost 59%, the Central Election Commission announced after polls closed Sunday. Preliminary results expected later ...Read more
US, Iran appear far from peace deal 100 days since war began
The U.S. and Iran appear to be making little progress toward an interim deal to end the war Washington and Israel began 100 days ago, as fresh attacks pile pressure on a fragile ceasefire.
The past week saw the worst flare-up in tensions since the truce started around April 8. Negotiations between Washington and Tehran are bogged down over the ...Read more
Xi visits North Korea to reassert influence over emboldened Kim
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to North Korea in a likely bid to reassert Beijing’s influence over an emboldened Kim Jong Un, a neighbor with a rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal and deepening alliance with Russia.
The two-day visit that begins Monday marks Xi’s first to Pyongyang in seven years, and comes just weeks after he hosted...Read more
Illinois' new cellphone ban receives praise, criticism from Chicago-area school communities
CHICAGO — Many students reached for their backpacks as they spilled out of Bernhard Moos Elementary School last week, pulling out smartphones and tablets as they walked away. Come fall 2027, that scene will be the norm, as the end of the school day will be the first chance most students will have to check their devices under the new Illinois ...Read more
Iguanas bounce back in South Florida after February freeze wiped out thousands
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Michele Holtfreter planted fresh pentas in her yard this spring — only to find an iguana was tearing into her blossoms.
“After they started flowering, there was a big green iguana hanging around my palm tree,” recalled Holtfreter, of Deerfield Beach. “Next thing I know, the tops of the pentas are being chewed ...Read more
In a vaccine-skeptical California county, a potential playbook to contain measles
James Mu had braced for the call that came in late January.
A patient from his rural Northern California county had measles, a disease so rare there that many physicians have never treated a case.
While California has some of the strictest vaccine laws in the country, conservative Shasta County's approach during the COVID pandemic stood in ...Read more
State urges social media guardrails, but many Maryland school boards opt out
BALTIMORE — In 2024, Alison Rudolph found herself in the middle of a social media spat with Carroll County school board member Steve Whisler, who accused the bookstore owner and former teacher of “sexualizing kids” because she promoted an annual Banned Books Week on her store’s Facebook page.
Rudolph said Whisler’s comments triggered ...Read more
Louisiana's reporting law chills immigrant Medicaid applications
Yolibeth’s 4-year-old daughter scrambled headfirst onto a cushy leather love seat at their home near New Orleans and pushed a hairbrush into the hands of Miriam Romero, a health coordinator who works with the family. Romero placed the girl in her lap and started brushing her dark hair.
Yolibeth, a 38-year-old single mother who moved to South ...Read more
Barge hit Susquehanna Bridge on Saturday near Havre de Grace, causing Amtrak delays
Thousands of rail passengers traveling between Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York faced delays Saturday after a barge struck Amtrak’s Susquehanna River Bridge, forcing officials to temporarily halt train traffic along one of the nation’s busiest passenger rail corridors.
Amtrak suspended service across the bridge Saturday afternoon while ...Read more
Thunderstorms delay more than 350 flights at Denver International Airport
DENVER — Thunderstorms have delayed more than 350 flights in and out of Denver International Airport on Saturday afternoon.
The storms were not severe enough as of 4:45 p.m. to warrant official warnings from the National Weather Service, but posed enough risk to delay 143 departing flights and 107 arrivals, according to tracking service ...Read more
US intercepts fresh Iranian attacks as peace talks stall
U.S. and Iranian forces continued to trade fresh attacks, after a week that saw the worst flare-up in tensions since the shaky ceasefire started and little progress toward an interim peace deal.
U.S. Central Command shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, it said a ...Read more
As anti-ICE protest cases falter, prosecutors notch first conviction on lesser charge
MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Cities activist Isabel Lopez faced the possibility of decades in prison after being accused of assaulting federal agents during an anti-immigration enforcement protest in south Minneapolis last summer. Yet with just weeks to go before trial, prosecutors downgraded her four felony charges to a single misdemeanor in return...Read more
Inside the Police Commission's fight to retain its civilian oversight role amid LAPD defiance
LOS ANGELES — Jeff Skobin was tired of asking.
Last November, amid a startling increase in LAPD shootings, the Los Angeles police commissioner requested a report from the department about how its officers' use of deadly force compared with other large agencies. At the time, Chief Jim McDonnell promised a careful review.
The following month, ...Read more
Whistleblower alleges Social Security records targeted in immigration push
A former senior Social Security Administration official alleges that Trump administration officials discussed a proposal to classify millions of living people as deceased in government records as part of an effort to pressure immigrants to leave the United States.
The allegations surfaced Thursday in a whistleblower disclosure made public by ...Read more
2 toddlers fatally shot in Florida apartment, deputies say
ORLANDO, Fla. — Two toddlers found shot Friday evening in Orange County died at a hospital, while a man who was their father was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
At 6:30 p.m. deputies responded to the 4400 block of South Rio Grande Avenue over a report of a man with a gun who’d ...Read more
Property tax cuts: South Florida cities warn of consequences if voters say yes to tax break
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The fear is real when it comes to Florida’s looming property tax cuts — but so is the zeal.
The prospect of voters heading to the polls in November to decide whether to give themselves a break on their property taxes has put cities in South Florida and across the state on edge, triggering alarm and dread.
At the ...Read more
Lake Mead is barreling faster than ever toward 'system crash,' top experts say
LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River Basin faces a complete “system crash,” with little chance that a wet winter will fully prevent a worst-case scenario, a leading group of experts says in a new academic paper.
That is, unless water managers can get serious about cutting water use fast.
Study author Anne Castle, a fellow at the University of ...Read more
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