Russian missiles hit a shopping center in a central Ukrainian city, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens as attacks on civilian targets get closer to the heart of the country.

More than 1,000 people were at the mall at the time of the attack on Kremenchuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Facebook on Monday.

At least ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Twenty people were injured, with seven being transported to the hospital, following a bus collision with a parked tractor-trailer in El Segundo on Monday morning, according to authorities.

The crash involving a Los Angeles Department of Transportation bus took place near the Los Angeles International Airport on the eastbound ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday for a former high school football coach whose prayers at the 50-yard line drew crowds and controversy, declaring his public prayers were protected as free speech.

The 6-3 decision is a symbolic victory for those who seek a larger role for prayers and religion in public schools.

The court stressed ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Miya’s Law, a bill named in honor of slain Orlando college student Miya Marcano that seeks to make apartments safer by requiring background checks on employees, at a private ceremony Monday, according to a news release.

Marcano, a 19-year-old Valencia College student, was killed by a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol called a surprise hearing for Tuesday to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony,” according to statement.

The abruptly scheduled 1 p.m. ET hearing was announced Monday after the committee said last week it planned to take a...Read more

Russian missiles hit a shopping center in a central Ukrainian city, killing at least 10 people and injuring 50 as attacks on civilian targets get closer to the heart of the country.

More than 1,000 people were at the mall at the time of the attack on Kremenchuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Facebook on Monday.

At least 21 ...Read more

ATLANTA — A federal appeals court asked attorneys on both sides of the challenge to Georgia’s anti-abortion law to file additional documents in response to last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Reproductive rights groups and abortion providers sued Georgia in 2019 after the Legislature passed an abortion law ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — On the fifth week of hurricane season, meteorologists are keeping their eyes on three disturbances with odds of becoming the second tropical storm of the season.

First, the National Hurricane Center continues to monitor a tropical wave over the central Atlantic that is continuing to improve its organization, according to the 2...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Republican Party headquarters was vandalized over the weekend during protests over the Supreme Court’s overturning Roe v. Wade, according to a statement released by the party.

The act was followed by unspecified threats over the weekend. The state GOP says they are asking Democratic leaders to denounce ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Antisemitic flyers in plastic sandwich bags were distributed to homes throughout the Columbia-area city of Forest Acres earlier this month. The local police department is now investigating.

The material is thought to be part of a nationwide harassment campaign against Jewish residents, according to the police department.

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ATLANTA — First an argument, then gunfire, and two young women lay wounded Sunday evening inside a downtown Atlanta sub shop.

One of those women, a 26-year-old, was later pronounced dead. They were coworkers at a Subway connected to a Circle K on Northside Drive, two blocks south of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. A customer became enraged over the ...Read more

NATO is planning to boost the size of its high-readiness force to 300,000 — effectively a sevenfold increase — in what the military alliance says amounts to one of the biggest changes to its defense planning in decades.

Leaders from the alliance’s 30 members will gather in Madrid this week, where they’ll sign off on a major overhaul of...Read more

KRUN, Germany — In a videoconference Monday with the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed for more advanced weaponry and defense systems to blunt Russia’s air attacks — and the U.S. plans to deliver just that.

President Joe Biden will announce a new aid package this week that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday for a former high school football coach whose prayers at the 50-yard line drew crowds and controversy, declaring his public prayers were protected as free speech.

The 6-3 decision is a symbolic victory for those who seek a larger role for prayers and religion in the public schools.

The court ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has reported a presumptive case of monkeypox, an infectious disease that has raised concerns because it has emerged globally over the past year and has been found in 26 U.S. states.

The infection announced Monday involves a Twin Cities adult who is receiving outpatient treatment for an infection that likely occurred ...Read more

Several months ago, a lab technologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital mixed the blood components of two people: Alphonso Harried, who needed a kidney, and Pat Holterman-Hommes, who hoped to give him one.

The goal was to see whether Harried’s body would instantly see Holterman-Hommes’ organ as a major threat and attack it before surgeons could ...Read more

Armando Peniche Rosales has a crooked toe that for years has predicted the weather, growing sensitive when rain or cold is coming.

“It never healed right,” said Peniche Rosales, who broke the middle toe on his left foot as a high school soccer player in Denver years ago and limped home without seeing a doctor. He was living in the U.S. ...Read more

Some have come from overseas, some from only a couple hours away. But their journey can’t be measured in the miles they have traveled. It can be measured in the mental hurdles they have overcome. The suicide attempts they have survived. The nightmares that still awaken them. The relationships that collapsed under the weight of their struggles....Read more