BEIRUT — Lebanon and Israel last week forged a framework agreement aimed at ending hostilities between the long-time enemies. But the U.S.-engineered deal hinges on what has been a non-starter for the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah: Disarmament.

The 14-point trilateral agreement, hailed by U.S. officials as a landmark step toward a...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Several teens overdosed at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall last year after they drank from a water jug spiked with a "dangerous narcotic" that was passed around in a classroom, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed this month.

The April 2025 incident at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey sent three teenagers to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul is continuing to bankroll New York City’s major childcare expansion, with $19 million in capital grants awarded on Tuesday to eight “shovel-ready” childcare projects.

It’s part of a total of $106 million for 37 childcare projects statewide, according to data shared with the Daily News ahead of its public ...Read more

The U.K.’s defense spending plan leaves several hard choices for Andy Burnham to make on the future security of the nation.

The government rejected calls to boost defense spending to 3% of economic output in 2030 — the year NATO has said the block must be prepared for a Russian attack — instead promising to spend 2.7% by the end of the ...Read more

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” officers obtain a warrant that permits a multistep, give-and-take information sharing process between officers and tech employees that winnows...Read more

In 1526, books appeared in England that no one had seen before: printed New Testaments in the English language. The public snapped them up. For the first time, people read now-common phrases such as “the powers that be” and “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” But religious authorities condemned the English Bible and burned ...Read more

In the 1520s and 1530s, a man named Esteban de Dorantes, known as Estevanico, walked across the deserts of what is now Texas, New Mexico and Arizona – decades before the English founded Jamestown in 1607 and a full century before the Pilgrims reached Plymouth in 1620.

Born in Azemmour, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, he had been ...Read more

To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common sense to first get a detailed picture of who they are and where they are. My research shows what can be gained – by policymakers and the broader public – from detailed environmental data and highlights what is lost when it’s not collected.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was confident his likely successor, Andy Burnham, would maintain the U.K.’s commitment to defense, as he laid out plans to invest an extra £15 billion ($20 billion) to modernize the British military.

Starmer said the character of modern warfare was “changing before our eyes,” as he detailed proposals ...Read more

Israel and Lebanon’s latest peace deal faces an uncertain future after Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful proxy militant group, this week vowed to derail its implementation.

The framework agreement — signed in Washington — lays out a plan for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, pending “the verified ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the next five years, the Environmental Protection Agency has indicated it will not require public water utilities to test for microplastics or pharmaceuticals in drinking water, according to a proposed rule published in the Federal Register.

On Friday, the EPA submitted a list of chemicals it plans to test for under the ...Read more

Just as Venezuela was leaving behind years of international pariah status, catastrophic earthquakes have devastated its main international airport — and many of the skilled hands who worked there.

Ground zero for the devastation from the twin quakes on June 24 is the coastal state of La Guaira, home to Simón Bolívar International Airport in...Read more

At least nine states have passed voting laws this year that will make it more difficult for some voters to cast their ballots during the midterm elections in November.

Lawmakers in Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia passed laws between January and May of this year restricting ...Read more

CHICAGO — After spending nearly eight months in detention facilities across the United States, Jose Enrique Ojeda Duarte was finally deported to his native Venezuela in early April. He had been detained while on his way to work in Chicago in September, at the height of Operation Midway Blitz.

Almost a month after arriving in Venezuela, the U....Read more

Jennifer Brooks, a history professor at Auburn University, had barely unpacked from a trip out of town earlier this month when the messages started blowing up her phone.

Texts from colleagues and rumors on social media delivered the unsettling news: The Auburn Board of Trustees had voted to dissolve the school’s faculty senate and give itself...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — July marks the start of new laws that passed the Legislature in Minnesota.

Legislators passed nearly 100 new laws during this year’s session affecting everything from civil law to projects restoring the environment. You can find a summary of those laws on the Legislature’s website.

Here are just a few of the new laws that ...Read more

Every state, along with Washington, D.C., requires children to obtain certain vaccinations before they can attend school or childcare. These mandates date back decades, and many public health experts consider them a foundational defense against infectious disease.

Since the summer of 2025, Florida leaders have aimed to make the state the first ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In a rare public appearance in Philadelphia, Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman joined Republican U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick at a youth basketball camp in Nicetown on Monday to promote Trump Accounts, the new federally backed savings accounts for kids that became law with the president’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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