WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend falls in a decades-long tradition of military strikes of debatable legality that the other branches of government have been unwilling or unable to check, experts said.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, while a 1973 law ...Read more

DENVER — The Salvation Army will stay on as operator of the Crossroads emergency homeless shelter in Denver after a split City Council on Monday approved a contract extension.

The nonprofit group has faced scrutiny for months from advocates for homeless people who say several violent incidents at Salvation Army shelters in the city prove it ...Read more

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season may get its first named storm of the year, even though the National Hurricane Center says it will be short-lived.

In a special 8:30 a.m. tropical outlook update Tuesday, the NHC said a small gale-force low-pressure system about 900 miles east-northeast of Bermuda in the central subtropical Atlantic had become ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, who was convicted on federal corruption charges and resigned in disgrace, is throwing herself a party by inviting the public to come “celebrate” with her at her last City Council meeting this week.

Fernandes Anderson’s office sent out an email blast Monday with a formal invitation...Read more

BEIRUT — President Donald Trump excoriated both Israel and Iran over what he said were violations of the surprise ceasefire between the two nations and that was set to begin Tuesday morning, underscoring the tenuousness of a deal meant to bring a denouement to the fiercest confrontation in the belligerents' decades-long enmity.

"We have two ...Read more

MIAMI — With hurricane season underway amid a massive state and federal push for deportations, some disaster relief groups are worried that fear of immigration raids could keep foreign-born Floridians from hurricane shelters this year — even as a storm threatens their community.

The question popped up several times at a gathering last week ...Read more

ATLANTA — Almost every Republican in the Georgia House signed onto a resolution supporting President Donald Trump’s airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, a show of force reflecting how firmly much of the party is aligning behind the U.S. military intervention.

Even so, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is intensifying her criticism of the U.S...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s first visit to Pennsylvania this year came in March at the invitation of Sen. Dave McCormick.

As the two sat mat-side at the Wells Fargo Center watching college wrestlers grapple, McCormick brought up an issue he was eager to discuss.

The Japanese company Nippon Steel wanted to acquire U.S. Steel, ...Read more

For 24 years, immigrants lacking documentation who graduated from high school in California have received in-state tuition benefits at public colleges and universities under a law that has given tens of thousands access to higher education that many couldn't otherwise afford.

When the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 540 in 2001, it ...Read more

In the summer of 2021, Priscilla Presley seemed to be riding high.

The ex-wife of the King of Rock 'n' Roll had appeared at Graceland during the annual Elvis Week celebration and later hosted a three-day festival at the famous manse extolling the virtues of elegant Southern living. Then there were the highly anticipated upcoming biopics: ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jennie Marie Mahalick Petrini has a big decision on her hands.

For Petrini, the night of Jan. 7 brought total loss. The Eaton fire decimated her quaint home in the northwest corner of Altadena near Jane's Village, reducing her sanctuary to a pile of rubble.

"I have a spiritual connection to that house," she said. "It was the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Don’t hold your breath, Hoosiers.

The nearly three dozen Illinois counties where a majority of voters in recent years have expressed their desire to leave the Land of Lincoln won’t be joining their neighbor to the east anytime soon — or probably ever — regardless of any recommendation from a bistate commission Indiana Gov. ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado universities are bracing for major disruptions to their international student populations this fall in light of federal hostility toward foreign-born students and rapidly shifting immigration policies from the Trump administration.

More than 10,360 international students attended colleges and universities in the Centennial ...Read more