HARTFORD, Conn. -- Federal investigators have concluded that Yale University discriminates against Asian American and white applicants after a two-year investigation into the school's affirmative action policies as part of its undergraduate admissions process.

The findings are part of several attempts by the Trump administration to beat back ...Read more

GAZA CITY -- The Israeli army damaged a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in an airstrike carried out overnight between Wednesday and Thursday.

The army had struck Hamas targets in response to incendiary balloons launched into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, and a spokeswoman told dpa...Read more

MIAMI -- Kamala Harris, the U.S. senator picked this week as the running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, stands to become a number of "firsts" if the duo win the November presidential election: The first woman vice president. The first Black vice president. The first Asian-American vice president.

But there's one...Read more

ATLANTA -- A Fulton County judge recently denied a search warrant sought by prosecutors who wanted information on a fundraising site set up for the former Atlanta police officer charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks.

An official from the district attorney's office sought the search warrant last week from Superior Court Judge Robert ...Read more

The United States Postal Service has possibly never been more important, or more embattled.

The 245-year-old organization has faced years of derision from President Donald Trump. And as the election nears with his prospects uncertain, Trump has intensified his unfounded claims against voting by mail and his institutional attacks on the ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Citing a study showing a correlation between vaping and COVID-19, an Illinois congressman is calling for a federal ban on all e-cigarettes -- though a vaping industry advocate called it a publicity stunt.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Schaumburg and chairman of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, wrote...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would block a funding boost for the U.S. Postal Service to handle an expected flood of mail-in ballots in coming weeks, admitting it's part of a White House effort to limit Americans voting by mail and raising the chances of chaos surrounding the election in November.

Democrats have ...Read more

When news broke Tuesday that Joe Biden had selected Sen. Kamala Harris to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee, political consultant Neal Carter saw a range of emotions across the moderate, liberal and left-wing circles he traverses.

The first Black woman on a presidential ticket? A historic selection? A symbolic gesture to the big tent ...Read more

A new federal report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention details how a rare but severe illness linked to COVID-19 is affecting children in seven states.

Illinois, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and California each had between 21 and 30 cases from March to July, according to an article released Thursday by the Centers for Disease ...Read more

In the middle of a pandemic, the United States suspended private charter flights to Cuba as a measure to increase pressure and cut off funds going to the Cuban government, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday.

"I requested that the Department of Transportation suspend private charter flights to all Cuban airports, including Havana,...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The man who broke into Miriam Smith's New Jersey home more than 38 years ago, killing her parents and 3-year-old sister, had finally died.

She started to cry.

"Why are you crying, Mommy?" her 6-year-old daughter, Peyton, asked her Monday night. She held the girl close. "People just cry sometimes when they're happy," Smith said....Read more

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad on Wednesday night located and disabled more than two dozen pipe bombs in a grassy area and dumpster off of Hoadley Road, near Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach.

Police said Thursday morning that the area is secure, and only Hoadly Road remained closed.

Gregory Samuel ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- In the days after he became the first San Diego County business owner criminally charged for defying coronavirus-related health orders, Ramona gym owner Peter San Nicolas took to Facebook to decry the "Covid police" treating business owners "like common criminals."

On Tuesday night, San Nicolas held an informal town hall-style ...Read more

MIAMI -- The sight of over 1,400 pieces of sea turtle shells, most about the size of dinner plates, on the floor of a warehouse near Miami International Airport was a sobering reminder that South Florida is a major hub for the illegal wildlife trade.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized the shipment of endangered Hawksbill and Green sea ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- When masked students walk back into his Northern Arizona University lab room at the end of the month, Tad Theimer will face them from behind a Plexiglas face shield while holding an infrared thermometer to their foreheads. As they examine bat skulls under microscopes, the biology professor will open windows and doors, hoping to ...Read more