Emergency crews in central Texas suspended their search for victims of recent catastrophic flooding as another night of heavy rain touched off new flash flood warnings.

The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office ordered volunteers, equipment and vehicles to vacate the area around Guadalupe River as water is expected to rise, it said on its Facebook ...Read more

At the Mamiche bakeries in the 9th and 10th arrondissements of Paris, their famous pains au chocolat and croissants depend on an essential but increasingly scarce ingredient — butter.

The bakery’s regular supplier can no longer provide a steady flow of French beurre de tourage, a type of flat butter used to make the pastries. Mamiche has ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The highest-paid Minneapolis police employee earned about a half-million dollars last year, with nearly half of that total from overtime pay.

The city’s Police Department posted a record amount of overtime in 2024: $28 million, or $12 million more than planned.

The department has routinely exceeded its overtime budget to make...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A young undocumented man stood outside of the Hollywood Home Depot looking for work on a recent hot Wednesday afternoon. Since the store was raided by federal immigration agents in June, he’s been on high alert, fearing detainment and deportation. But he relies on being in public spaces for his livelihood, like many other ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his forehead. The 30-year-old service technician for Rose Pest Control was about halfway through his last rodent service call of the day in Ukrainian Village.

He flicked the lid off the bait box, revealing an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On a palm tree-lined bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, thousands of people rallied against the Trump administration in one of many "No Kings Day" protests around the country last month.

Here in Santa Monica, the well-heeled and beachy protesters also had a localized message: America, we're sorry.

"Santa Monica apologies for...Read more

ATLANTA -- It was a couple of years into his prison sentence that Sedrick Moore says he lost his anger toward the people who had sent him there for a crime he didn’t commit, but now, more than two decades later, he’s looking for justice.

Moore spent 21 years in Georgia’s prison system after being wrongly convicted for a 1993 rape in ...Read more

The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades.

NCI, which has long benefited from enthusiastic bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Chu Ding, a 53-year-old agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, had just finished a Costco run when he noticed a pickup stopped in the parking lot blocking his car.

He tapped on the passenger window to indicate to the driver that he was leaving and that he could take his space. The truck moved away a few feet but ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has been placed on administrative leave after a colleague accused him of attempting to influence his decision in a criminal case, sources in the criminal justice system said.

Common Pleas Court Judge Scott DiClaudio was removed from the bench last month after a fellow judge said DiClaudio approached him ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday began forecasting a system to form later this week near Florida with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 8 p.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said it expects a broad area of low pressure to over the next couple of days near the southeastern U.S...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 2.2-magnitude earthquake hit the North Carolina mountains late Friday, government seismologists confirmed.

The quake struck at 11:23 p.m. and was centered about 5.6 miles west of Rosman, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Charlotte is about 140 miles east of Rosman.

At least two people said on social media that ...Read more

CHICAGO — With his features hidden by a mask and a black thermal shirt, prosecutors said Lontray Clark ignited a fire in a building with 13 apartments, then returned to his car and banged his hand on the center console.

“(I) lit they house on fire,” Clark told his cousin, according to prosecutors.

The building soon became engulfed in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office has issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents near the Green Fire, a lightning-started wildfire that has been burning since July 1 near Shasta Lake, according to a Saturday news release from the U.S. Forest Service.

The fire is 0% contained and has so far burned 8,395 acres, ...Read more

Mexico is projecting confidence that it will fend off a new set of 30% tariffs that President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to impose next month, with talks already underway to avert the worst.

After Trump went public with his plan by posting on social media, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum noted in speeches near the northern border ...Read more

Opposing groups from the French overseas territory of New Caledonia reached an agreement that aims to set out its future status following riots that rocked the Pacific archipelago last year.

The draft deal signed early Saturday among the groups and the government would create a New Caledonia state that would nevertheless remain part of France, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A fireworks executive and longtime pyrotechnician appears to have operated in the margins dividing local, state and federal agencies charged with permitting and regulating businesses dealing in explosives, before the deadly series of blasts that killed seven people July 1 at a fireworks facility in Esparto.

The company, ...Read more

Columbia University may be nearing a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate federal funding to the university over civil rights issues, according to reports by multiple news outlets.

The deal would require Columbia to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to those affected by the alleged violations, increase transparency in its hiring ...Read more