The obstetrics staff was surprised the first time it happened in June 2025. A pregnant woman who was dependent on methamphetamine arrived at the hospital in labor. She showed an image of graffiti spray-painted on a bridge in downtown Denver that read “Have your baby at Lutheran.” She was scared, and in pain, but wanted to be somewhere she...Read more

Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them.

I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also a native of Archbald, a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. My hometown ...Read more

More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America.

On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism. In the months before the operation, U.S. Southern Command began targeting small, fast-moving ...Read more

For millions of people, cannabis has become the unofficial prescription for lost sleep. But what feels like a solution may be quietly making the problem worse.

Consider these two cases:

She is 15 and has been lying in bed for the past hour. It is past midnight, and her brain will not quiet down. Her school bus comes at 6:20 a....Read more

On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran.

Famous for integrating the University of Mississippi four years ...Read more

MIAMI — The calls came in from all over the world — France, Illinois and nearby Miami — as people with family and friends at one of the country’s most infamous immigration detention centers dialed the one number they trusted to get help: 911.

Again and again, confused and desperate family members, unsure how to reach Alligator Alcatraz,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pulled back threatened military strikes against Iran, a stark reversal that came just hours after he vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “VERY HARD” and threatened to seize its oil infrastructure.

Trump on Thursday cited what he said were “discussions” that “have been brought to the highest level ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Immigration attorneys and advocates are accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of retaliating against detainees taking part in hunger strikes over inhumane conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

The Immigrant Defenders Law Center officials said a Belizean man they represent, who has helped organize ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is nominating Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence, following backlash over his selection of housing regulator Bill Pulte to serve in the role on an acting basis.

Clayton has been serving as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and was chairman of the Securities and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Federal immigration agents detained individuals outside a Southeast Baltimore school during a pre-kindergarten graduation ceremony Thursday, disrupting the event and alarming families and educators.

The operation also drew swift condemnation from Maryland officials, who called the enforcement action near young children “...Read more

DEARBORN, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told reporters Thursday that Michigan’s leaders were ready to “move forward” with opening the Gordie Howe International Bridge and were still hoping the new Detroit River span can be opened to traffic in “the next few days or weeks.”

“I’m hopeful that we can get it back on track and open ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly one year after carrying out one of the most shocking acts of political violence in Minnesota's history, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to killing state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

Boelter acknowledged that in agreeing to the plea deal, he ...Read more

Officials, environmental health advocates, and skin care industry groups are expressing hope that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a sunscreen ingredient this week — after consideration for two decades, and global use for nearly as long — will help restore Americans’ wavering faith in sunscreen.

“Bemotrizinol has been ...Read more

NEW YORK — A public defender lawyer arrested on Rikers Island and turned into the poster child for drug smuggling is suing the correction officers union and its president — after the supposedly pot-laced papers he brought into the jail turned out to be drug free.

Correction officers and their union head, Benny Boscio, made a public show of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Six years after dropping SAT and ACT test requirements, members of an influential University of California admissions board said Thursday that the group will reconsider requiring the standardized tests, a major move favored by faculty who have complained that many students are severely deficient in math.

The potential reversal ...Read more

SEATTLE — The father of a child who was doused with pepper spray by Seattle police during the early days of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Downtown Seattle has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit for $150,000.

The incident sparked national outrage after video and photos showed volunteer medics and other protesters pouring water ...Read more

China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.

It’s not the first time Tibetan regions have become a major source of renewable energy in China. Since the mid-1990s, many Tibetan communities have lived alongside hydropower stations.<...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly one year after carrying out one of the most shocking acts of political violence in state history, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

Boelter acknowledged that in agreeing to the plea deal, he will face two ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For much of this year, progressive lawmakers, labor unions and advocacy groups have pushed Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature to shore up the state’s healthcare system against federal cuts by taxing corporations more.

After all, proponents argued, Republicans in Washington, D.C. cut into healthcare ...Read more