It was just 10 years ago.

Former President Bill Clinton, standing in the scorching Haitian sun next to the pool of Haiti’s newest internationally branded hotel, looked around the foliage-lined courtyard and smiled.

There were toasts, there was chatter — and there was hope. As Haiti’s then-president Michel Martelly welcomed Clinton and U....Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1936, a Central Valley teenager made an incredible discovery.

Gustine High School student Allan Bennison dug up the fossilized remains of a hadrosaurus — a duck-billed dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, The Fresno Bee reported in 2013.

The bones, which Bennison found in Del ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — As summer and hurricane season nears, weather and environmental officials say federal cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will negatively impact climate research, education and storm reporting.

The Trump administration reportedly plans to cut NOAA’s roughly $6.1 billion budget by 27% to $4.5 ...Read more

The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Peters said.

Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her midmorning.

“She wasn�...Read more

A man has been arrested in connection with the theft on Easter Sunday of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s handbag, CNN reported, citing an unidentified law-enforcement source.

The suspect is in custody and authorities expect more arrests of members of a theft ring that has been targeting the Penn Quarter area in Washington, D.C., the person ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s been years since Timothy Ambacher has thought frequently about the crash that claimed one life and injured dozens of people on the Strip nearly 10 years ago.

Ambacher, one of the people prosecutors have said Lakeisha Holloway tried to kill that evening in December 2015, was then a sophomore at Delaware Valley University who...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. told a business forum in Budapest that Hungary and the region should pick the U.S. over China as its economic partner, according to the Portfolio news website.

Trump Jr., who’s holding a roadshow headlined “Trump Business Vision 2025,” said China posed a bigger threat than Russia to the region, according to the business ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Last Monday, after consulting with medical professionals, 10 students at Occidental College launched a hunger strike, hoping to draw attention to their long-standing demands for the college to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

And in this new season of protest, they have tacked ...Read more

The toll from deaths and injuries continued to climb after a powerful explosion on Saturday engulfed a commercial port in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province on the Strait of Hormuz, reports say.

At least 14 people died and more than 750 people have been injured, Agence France-Presse quoted Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni as saying. The ...Read more

BALTIMORE — More than 50 University of Maryland grants were canceled or paused by federal funding cuts under the Trump administration, representing “tens of millions of dollars,” a university official confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.

“With over 50 grants impacted and the number fluctuating each day, this represents tens of millions of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A modest storm brought light showers across the Los Angeles area early Saturday — triggering a mudslide that closed a section of Pacific Coast Highway — with some rain expected through Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Saturday's rain dissipated around noon, and "spotty and sparse" showers continued ...Read more

NEW YORK — The body of missing Princeton student Lauren Blackburn was pulled from the waters of Lake Carnegie on Friday, less than week after he disappeared, university officials confirmed.

“Our hearts are heavy and we share our deepest condolences with Lauren’s family and friends,” Dean of Graduate Students Regan Crotty wrote in a ...Read more

MIAMI — In June 1986, Shirley Brant was in her North Miami Beach office working as a real estate broker when she was shot in the face and killed. Now, nearly four decades after her murder, police say they have finally found her killer.

Jeffrey Taylor, 64, was jailed Friday in connection with Brant’s death. Authorities say new fingerprint ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — A vice president of an insurance brokerage firm and his accomplices targeted the homeless, the unemployed and those with mental health and substance abuse issues in a scheme to earn commission from fraudulent enrollments for the Affordable Care Act, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The scheme involved submitting ...Read more

CHICAGO — A man accused of starting a fire that led to a Chicago firefighter’s death was captured on surveillance footage coming out of an alley in the early-morning hours of April 23 and looking back toward a garage that was soon engulfed in flames and smoke, prosecutors said in court Saturday.

About a half hour later, Fire Department Capt...Read more

President Donald Trump called for “free of charge” passage of American ships through the Panama and Suez canals, renewing his focus of expanding U.S. influence over critical commercial and naval waterways.

While Trump began pushing for an exit of Chinese port operators around the Panama Canal soon after returning to the White House in ...Read more

India said its troops responded to firing from Pakistan military positions in the Jammu and Kashmir region for a second day on Saturday, as tensions remained escalated between the neighbors following a deadly attack on tourists this week.

Both sides used small arms and there were no casualties in the gun battle along the border, Indian defense...Read more

An influential California legislator is pressuring the State Bar of California to ditch its new multiple-choice questions after a February bar exam debacle and revert to the traditional test format in July.

"Given the catastrophe of the February bar, I think that going back to the methods that have been used for the last 50 years — until we ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — An 82-year-old detainee in San Diego County jail died at a local hospital after receiving treatment for low blood pressure and a heart condition, the Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.

Thomas Richard Heaven was awaiting sentencing on multiple counts of committing lewd acts on a minor last month when he began exhibiting symptoms of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — S&P Global Ratings has lowered the bond ratings for the city of Los Angeles, which is trying to close a nearly $1 billion budget deficit.

On Friday, the credit rating agency downgraded its long-term rating for the city's general obligation bonds to AA- from AA.

It also lowered the rating for the Municipal Improvement Corp. of ...Read more