CHICAGO — Hot, steamy air blowing into Illinois from a heat dome moving east across the country has kicked off at least a week of dangerous heat, with humidity peaking Saturday through Monday. These kinds of sticky temperatures with little to no overnight relief can pose a major to extreme risk to the health of anyone without access to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The 22-year-old son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon has been accused of choking and raping a woman in Manhattan last year, prosecutors announced.

Abraham Chabon, a student at New York University, is facing a count of second-degree strangulation and first-degree rape in connection with the the alleged attack, ...Read more

DENVER — With the recent rollout of Colorado’s psilocybin therapy industry, the state has cemented its place at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. And if all goes well, local leaders hope to create a model that not only serves as a blueprint for other states but also helps inform how psychedelic modalities can be introduced into the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fat Joe’s longtime hype man is accusing him of sex acts with minors in a $20 million lawsuit, nearly two months after the Bronx rapper accused his former associate of extortion.

Terrance “T.A.” Dixon on Thursday sued the 54-year-old “Lean Back” artist, real name Joseph Antonio Cartagena, in a nearly 160-page filing ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s year-long home detention sentence will wrap up on Friday, according to a judge’s order.

The order from U.S. District Judge Lydia Griggsby came in response to Mosby filing motions earlier this week for the return of her passport and waiver of her $1,447.23 location ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court backed a 2019 federal law Friday meant to allow lawsuits against the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority for damages from terror attacks.

Congress passed the law stating the two organizations could be subject to lawsuits in the United States for activities such as processing payments for ...Read more

LONDON — The U.K.’s House of Commons voted to legalize assisted dying on Friday, in a move that is likely to usher in a significant cultural shift over how to handle the treatment of those with terminal illnesses.

The measure was passed by a 314-to-291 vote following hours of debate in Parliament, when some members shared their own ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Changes to Medicaid, food stamps and more proposed in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would put San Diego County on the hook for at least $286 million a year to keep those services going and comply with new federal rules, setting off big questions about how the county will care for hundreds of thousands of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The number of rescues in the wilderness areas around Mount St. Helens keep going up — and the actions of some of those before they call for help have drawn criticism as reckless.

One man, 21, kayaked over a waterfall, suffering a spinal injury. A 54-year-old woman glissaded down Mount St. Helens — sliding down a snow-covered...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Emma De Paz woke up at 2 every morning for 25 years to make soup, roasted chicken and tamales to sell to work crews picking up their day’s supplies at the Home Depot.

She joined other immigrant vendors lining the side streets under tents and over grills in a makeshift community that was something of a refuge for Latino ...Read more

BEIRUT — Last month, President Donald Trump stood in the palatial ballroom of the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh, and rebuked America's misadventures in the Middle East.

As Saudi officials and U.S. business leaders looked on, Trump said that too many of his predecessors were "afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of ...Read more

BOSTON — A candidate running for Norfolk County District Attorney is calling on Michael Morrissey to resign from the post after a jury acquitted Karen Read of second-degree murder, a charge she says signals an inexperienced prosecutor.

Dedham resident Djuna Perkins, a former assistant attorney general and head of the Suffolk County DA’s ...Read more

SpaceX had reset the countdown clock for its next human spaceflight, but a NASA decision has forced another delay of the private Axiom Space Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station.

NASA stated it needed more time to evaluate a recent repair to a years-old leak to the Russian side of the station.

“Because of the space station’s ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he would give diplomacy a chance before deciding whether to strike Iran, dialing back on recent comments that suggested military action could be imminent.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump signaled he would give diplomacy a chance before deciding whether to strike Iran, dialing back on recent comments that suggested military action could be imminent.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my ...Read more

MADRID — The problems piling up for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Spain are threatening to spill into next week’s NATO summit, with potentially drastic consequences for the rest of the European Union.

The 53-year-old premier has been under fire at home, with allegations of graft in his inner circle putting his minority coalition under ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Changes to Medicaid, food stamps and more proposed in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would put San Diego County on the hook for at least $286 million a year to keep those services going and comply with new federal rules, setting off big questions about how the county will care for hundreds of thousands of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a statement released Thursday night, Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette for the first time provided chilling details of the moments when they were shot last weekend, allegedly by a man now charged with attempting to murder them and a short time later assassinating Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

The Hoffmans ...Read more

LONDON — The U.K.’s House of Commons will hold a final vote on Friday on whether to allow assisted dying, a move that could usher in a significant cultural shift over how to handle those with terminal illnesses.

The measure will go through its third reading with members of Parliament, with the outcome of the vote expected by 2.30 pm. While ...Read more