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WASHINGTON — Hours before Speaker Mike Johnson became the first speaker in U.S. history to address the British Parliament, President Donald Trump was criticizing the United Kingdom’s planned ceding of overseas ...Read more

CHICAGO — U.S. Geological Survey officials reported a 3.8 magnitude earthquake happened overnight near Ohlman in central Illinois.

The USGS said the quake happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. about 3 miles northeast of ...Read more

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

Edwin Eugene Aldrin...Read more

ADEN, Yemen — Stuck in Aden airport with an invitation from Saudi Arabia he couldn't — but very much wanted to — refuse, Aidarous al-Zubaidi played for time, nitpicking on points of protocol that delayed the plane's...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Past a marble monument for a Civil War hero, down a grass path where toppled headstones disappear into ivy and weeds and faded miniature American flags droop, lies the underground vault of James Campbell, ...Read more

Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting.

Then 25 years old and six months pregnant, she drove herself to the emergency ...Read more

When Virginia Guevara moved into a studio apartment in California’s Orange County in 2024 after nearly a decade of homelessness, she needed far more than a roof and a bed.

Scattered visits to free clinics ...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis often says that Florida is the best state in the country for higher education.

It’s been ranked No. 1 for higher education by U.S. News & World Report for nearly a decade, and the University of...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — For the people who live in Minnesota or have roots here, seeing the state become the center of international attention for tragic reasons now feels like a recurring nightmare.

Minnesota — especially its ...Read more

When the head of the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan worries about the looming federal cuts to Medicaid, it’s not just her job. It’s personal.

Martha Santana-Chin, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, ...Read more

Minnesota elected officials are calling for a transparent investigation into the death of a man who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota and later died in federal custody.

Victor Manuel Diaz, ...Read more

The Rev. Al Sharpton joined nurses in rallying outside Mount Sinai Morningside in Manhattan as the largest nurses strike in New York City history entered its second week on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“How can you spend...Read more

Tina Peters grabbed another inmate’s neck and shoved her during a brief prison scuffle Sunday night, according to surveillance footage that appears to contradict claims from Peters’ defense attorney.

The footage, ...Read more

A breach in a Minnesota Department of Human Services system allowed inappropriate access to the private data of nearly 304,000 people.

There is not evidence the data was misused, the department said in a Jan. 16 letter ...Read more

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing.

That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden State’s governor, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of workers are expected to leave work early Tuesday to protest the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s second inauguration.

Nearly 40,000 people RSVP’d to participate in a 2 p.m. ...Read more