America’s public lands, from its majestic national parks to its vast national forests, are at the heart of the country’s identity.

They cover more than a quarter of the nation and large parts of the West. Some are crisscrossed by hiking trails and used by hunters and fishermen. Ranchers graze cattle on others. In many areas, the ...Read more

SpaceX is set to send up a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from the Space Coast that could bring sonic booms across Central Florida on Monday.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the NROL-69 mission is targeting a 1:48 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, with a backup possible Tuesday at ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president on Monday after the country's Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment motion passed by the National Assembly late last year.

Han was handed the reins to the country after lawmakers impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol on Dec. 14 ...Read more

Days after a tent demonstration in support of Gaza had been cleared, Jewish students at Columbia University gathered on Passover to share their reasons for participating in the campus protests. Joining them was Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student who had been tapped to liaison with the school administration.

Khalil is currently being...Read more

BALTIMORE — Avery Fauntleroy was 16 years old in 2008 when he entered the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School, a juvenile detention center in Maryland.

What was meant to be a place of rehabilitation for him became something far worse.

During his three-month stay for violating the conditions of his home detention order — which was originally ...Read more

Rev. Terri Steed Pierce has encountered hate before. People have stood outside her church and shouted that as a gay woman she is an affront to the gospel. Videos of her sermons have been altered to make her sound like a cartoon character and used in social media campaigns to disparage women and the LBGTQ+ community.

But Sunday, March 9, was the...Read more

After a twitching pinky finger led to a diagnosis of young-onset Parkinson’s disease, Keith Krehbiel, then 42, stopped at a bookstore on the way home to learn more about the progressive neurological disorder before telling his wife Amy the shocking news.

“I remember sitting in a parking lot and hearing this sad piece by Miles Davis,” he ...Read more

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe.

That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Sheila Potocnik cried into her phone, gasping for breath. When her brother picked up, she wailed, “Jeffrey, I’m so, so sorry."

It was late on Sept. 10, 2015, when Potocnik learned that her brother’s son, 15-year-old Antonio DeMeules, had been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Isanti, Minnesota, while skateboarding along a ...Read more

When his school board raised the prospect of banning cell phones, Superintendent Dan Taormina sunk in his seat.

"I did not want to take on kids and parents and their phones," said Taormina, who leads the Montoursville Area School District in Lycoming County. The district had previously tried banning phones — both by asking students to put ...Read more

Hundreds of USPS workers left their postal-blue uniforms at home on Sunday, when they rallied on Boston Common for a fair contract and vowed to “fight like hell” against a march toward the privatization of a 250-year-old public good.

Many clad in the red t-shirts of their union, the postal workers and their supporters stood for hours ...Read more

A South Korean court has overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as the country’s acting leader in the first major ruling after the martial law fiasco.

The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of Han on Monday, with only one out of eight judges voting against restoring him to office. The decision is closely ...Read more

China needs to take action on stopping the flow of fentanyl precursors to the U.S. before further talks on trade, according to a Donald Trump ally in the Senate who met with top officials in Beijing over the weekend.

“It’ll be difficult to have any conversation about tariffs and non-tariff barriers until the fentanyl precursor issue is ...Read more

A South Korean court has overturned Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s impeachment, reinstating him as the acting leader as the country waits for a separate verdict on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s political fate.

The Constitutional Court ruled in Han’s favor on Monday, with only one of the eight judges voting against restoring him to office. An ...Read more

Ukrainian and U.S. officials held talks in Riyadh, resuming efforts to end Russia’s full-scale invasion as President Donald Trump pushes for a ceasefire.

The discussion on Sunday in Saudi Arabia was “productive and focused,” and “addressed key points including energy,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on social media. U.S...Read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has a message in response to threats from within the Trump administration to bring “hell” to Boston in pursuit of the president’s mass deportation plans.

“Bring it on,” she said.

Campbell, speaking during an interview aired Sunday by WCVB, said that while the country is facing a ...Read more

As his Democratic Party struggles to win back working-class Americans, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore talked on "Fox News Sunday" about voters’ frustrations — including a viral moment involving his constituent at a town hall.

A woman recently shouted during one of Rep. Glenn Ivey’s town halls in Prince George’s County, with emotion and anger ...Read more

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth has tried for months to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Gov. Tim Walz to no avail, even as the DFL governor traveled to other states for town halls and national interviews.

Demuth and other Republicans at the Capitol have grown increasingly frustrated with Walz, whom they say rarely engages with them ...Read more