PHILADELPHIA —An overwhelming majority of Philadelphians feel safe in their neighborhoods and more than 40% believe that the city has become cleaner under the leadership of Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, according to a new poll, suggesting that city residents see significant progress on the mayor’s key campaign promises.

However, there is not a ...Read more

The largest earthquake in California in more than three years shook a rural part of southern Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, causing power outages and disruption near Ukiah.

The magnitude 5.6 quake was centered about seven miles north of the small community of Redwood Valley in Mendocino County near Ukiah, according to the U.S. ...Read more

Iain Robertson, a Scottish actor who appeared in “Band of Brothers,” has been found guilty of raping one woman and assaulting two others.

In total, Robertson was convicted on Tuesday of five counts — including domestic abuse in addition to rape — involving three different women between 2004 and 2019, BBC News reported.

During his trial...Read more

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George III, his government and the British people listed in the body of the document would have little relevance to our lives today.

After all, ...Read more

Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori moved significantly closer to becoming Peru’s next president after an electoral tribunal on Tuesday rejected a challenge seeking to annul overseas votes, while new vote counts showed her lead over leftist rival Roberto Sánchez had grown beyond the number of ballots remaining to be counted.

With 99.79% of ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait on Wednesday, as he looks to reassure Persian Gulf allies of the strength of an interim peace agreement with Iran.

Rubio met UAE’s President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi before departing for Kuwait. He will end the day in Bahrain, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD and the FBI raided the homes of several former and current high-ranking NYPD officers as part of an ongoing bribery probe, the Daily News has learned.

Former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard were among those raided by a joint FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As firefighters continue to battle a stubborn and complex fire at a massive refrigerated warehouse in Boyle Heights, residents and businesses owners have expressed frustration and health concerns as neighborhoods have been engulfed by smoke.

Inside Jim's Burgers, not far from the burning warehouse, restaurant owner Manuel Orozco...Read more

For months, Delcy Rodríguez has been crisscrossing Venezuela atop a truck in what she describes as a pilgrimage. Motorcycles and cars follow her caravan in a scene that looks remarkably like the presidential campaign that opposition leader María Corina Machado ran less than two years ago.

It’s a carefully choreographed spectacle by ...Read more

MIAMI — Pediatric Associates, Florida’s largest pediatric provider, is sounding the alarm about a change by the state that could make it difficult for doctors to treat children who are insured through Medicaid in the future.

And it’s suing to stop that from happening.

The group, which has over 95 locations across the state, including ...Read more

Andy Burnham is all but certain to become the U.K.’s next prime minister after Darren Jones, who had been talked up as a potential rival, said he would not launch his own leadership bid.

Jones, a minister and ally of outgoing prime minister Keir Starmer, ruled himself out of the race in an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, saying he ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, as he looks to assure Gulf allies of the strength of an interim peace agreement with Iran.

Rubio is also scheduled to travel to Kuwait and Bahrain, visits that come after U.S.-Iran negotiations to secure a more ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cleavotta Morgan said her son, Daejon Morgan, called her every day from his cell at Men's Central Jail.

The 20-year-old inmate would ask her to pass the phone around to different members of the family. She'd often put the receiver up to his dog Hunter's ear so he could hear the animal's excitement at the sound of his voice. The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A police dog in western Minnesota stood in the heart of an emotionally charged custody battle between the Swift County Sheriff’s Office and one of its deputies who left the force this spring.

Deputy Steve Henriksen resigned from the Sheriff’s Office in May, but he didn’t want to be separated from Red, a police dog from ...Read more

The rise of artificial intelligence has Minnesota faith leaders wrestling with questions that feel both ancient and newly urgent: How should they respond to a force rapidly reshaping daily life?

And where is the line between using technology to, say, streamline church work and allowing it into relationships and spiritual practices long defined ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The statewide adoption of remote work for government employees was politically advantageous for Gov. Gavin Newsom early in the pandemic.

His administration set up a public-facing dashboard tracking how much carbon dioxide commuting state workers were not adding to the atmosphere by working from home. The administration ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — New state laws implementing sweeping reforms to the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, expanding absentee voting to all eligible voters, preventing armed security officers with records of misconduct from serving in the public school system and providing greater oversight for nonprofits that receive millions of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A plant extract that's gaining popularity as a pain cure-all and has been associated with multiple California deaths in its concentrated, synthetic form has been approved for research as a treatment for opioid addiction by the federal government.

Kratom is derived from the leaves of Mitragyna speciosa, a tree native to Southeast ...Read more