ATLANTA — Simultaneous gatherings were held at Emory University on Thursday evening, hours after an encampment on campus led to clashes with responding officers and multiple arrests.

A small group of Jewish students, local residents and officials stood outside Ali’s Cookies at Emory Village at 7 p.m. for a Passover gathering and to show ...Read more

United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment many say could defuse debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church. The amendment, approved Thursday at the denomination’s gathering in Charlotte, N.C., gives each region of the international church the ability to make their own decisions on divisive ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —Former labor leader John Dougherty's federal extortion trial ended in a mistrial Thursday after jurors declared they were at a stalemate and unable to reach a unanimous verdict, offering an inconclusive ending to the ex-union chief's third trial in as many years.

So, what happens now?

Why was a mistrial declared?

After 11 ...Read more

Nonfatal shootings have spiked 39% so far this year, despite recent efforts at tackling Kansas City’s gun violence problem.

That uptick is in part attributed to the mass shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl rally where two dozen people were shot and one bystander was killed on Valentine’s Day.

But even March saw a drastic increase — 42% —...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is investigating two recent Israeli flag thefts in Manhattan as hate crimes amid pro-Palestinian protests over the Gaza conflict continue to grip the city, officials said Friday.

In one of the two incidents, a Columbia University protester set the flag on fire after a rock was thrown at its owner, police said.

The first ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Biden administration is confronting the country’s worsening maternal mortality rate with visits to multiple states, including Georgia on Monday, to focus attention on women’s access to health care.

The visit to Atlanta is part of a year-long initiative launched in January to expand the federal government’s work to address ...Read more

Recent high-profile mass shootings at SEPTA bus stations have left Philadelphia commuters on high alert. Two gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in the Ogontz neighborhood on March 4, 2024, striking five people and killing 17-year-old Dayemen Taylor. Two days later, a group of teenagers shot eight other teens waiting at a bus stop near Northeast...Read more

The first week of testimony is winding down in former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York City on charges that he falsified business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult film star, in an effort to avoid reporting the payments as campaign-related spending.

In a discussion that quickly shifted to topics well ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For years, scientists have said that atmospheric rivers can either make or break the water supplies of thirsty California cities and farms.

For the last two winters, a steady succession of these giant “rivers in the sky” have dumped record-breaking and drought-busting precipitation across the state, while simultaneously ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With just days until Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect on Wednesday, providers are rushing to perform as many abortions as possible while planning contingencies for a future where they will need to turn thousands of women away.

Clinics have expanded hours, prioritized ultrasounds and added appointments in these ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A red and white banker’s box held together with clear tape and bearing torn mailing labels was slipped last month into a closet at the Michigan Hall of Justice.

Its contents — one of the most significant, failed cases in state history — are barred by law from ever being made public. The cardboard box collecting dust in ...Read more

The arrest of 108 at Emerson College in the pre-dawn hours had politicians taking shots at the police who warned the students pitching tents in a public way gave them no choice.

Social media video of the police sweep shows protesters being forcibly removed from the Boylston Place location around 2 a.m. Thursday, with some refusing to move in a ...Read more

Leader Kim Jong Un oversaw tests of a new North Korean rocket system that could bolster his ability to attack Seoul and it may become a weapon he attempts to sell to Russia for use in its assault on Ukraine.

Kim watched the test-fire of a 240 millimeter multiple rocket launcher with shells coming from a newly established arms producer that “...Read more

Republican Senate candidate Steve Garvey strongly condemned campus protests critical of Israel’s war in Gaza and warned he’d push to take away federal aid to schools that appear to encourage dissent that’s antisemitic.

He told a Los Angeles news conference that “demonstrations that allow people to build encampments that obstruct the ...Read more