In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report.

Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide abortions, not the women who...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dolores Huerta, the fiery and resolute activist who helped launch and guide the nation’s first enduring labor union for poor farmworkers and later became an inspiration to women and liberal true believers, has died. She was 96.

Erik Olvera, a spokesman for Huerta’s family, told The Times on Wednesday that Huerta died in ...Read more

A high-speed rail service slammed into another train about 60 miles south of Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least 64 people — the second major accident on Spain’s rail network this year and the deadliest crash in over a decade.

“We’re talking about an enormous death toll,” said Emiliano García Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha ...Read more

WASHINGTON – When CQ Roll Call first published this list for the 2026 election cycle a year and a half ago, Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff was ranked the most vulnerable incumbent senator.

Things have changed. Just under a week out from Election Day, Ossoff now sits at the tail end of the rankings. Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates his ...Read more

WASHINGTON – When CQ Roll Call first published this list for the 2026 election cycle a year and a half ago, Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff was ranked the most vulnerable incumbent senator.

Things have changed. Just under a week out from Election Day, Ossoff now sits at the tail end of the rankings. Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At the start of the cycle, Democrats’ path to the House majority appeared to run through the blue states of New York and California.

But less than a week before Election Day, the main battleground is largely centered on red-leaning districts that Donald Trump carried in 2024.

Still, a pair of Californians occupy the top two ...Read more

A high-speed rail service slammed into another train about 60 miles south of Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least 64 people — the second major accident on Spain’s rail network this year and the deadliest crash in over a decade.

“We’re talking about an enormous death toll,” said Emiliano García Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu edged ahead of opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in the country’s tightly fought election, though a surge in the Arab vote ensured neither has a clear path toward forming a government.

Netanyahu’s right-wing religious alliance was projected to win 53 seats in the 120-member parliament as of Wednesday ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu edged ahead of opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in the country’s tightly fought election, though a surge in the Arab vote ensured neither has a clear path toward forming a government.

Netanyahu’s right-wing religious alliance was projected to win 53 seats in the 120-member parliament as of Wednesday ...Read more

Flávio Bolsonaro landed in the U.S. on Wednesday, ending days of speculation about his whereabouts after he fled Brazil following his presidential election loss.

The right-wing senator arrived in the U.S. shortly after 9 a.m. local time, television reports showed.

The 45-year-old Bolsonaro lost a tightly contested presidential election to ...Read more

SAN MATEO, Calif. – A Pacific Northwest man’s plans to sell a $30,000 anime trading card at a Bay Area card show were thwarted when a vendor recognized the collectible as stolen, police said.

The caper unfolded just before 11 a.m. Sunday at the San Mateo County Event Center, during the second day of the East Bay Card Show, according to the ...Read more

Flávio Bolsonaro entered and left Argentina Tuesday evening, Argentine migration authorities said, countering media reports that he’d already reached the U.S. and deepening questions about the whereabouts of the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate.

Bolsonaro and his family entered Argentina through the border of the Brazilian city of ...Read more

A high-speed rail service slammed into another train about 60 miles south of Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people in the second major accident on Spain’s rail network this year.

Fifty more people are seriously injured, while 30 others have minor injuries, said Emiliano García Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha region, where the...Read more

President Donald Trump said a meeting would soon be arranged involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an effort to end the war between their countries, now in its fifth year.

“I think with Russia, we’re making a lot of progress with Russia-Ukraine,” Trump told reporters early Wednesday ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent much of election day warning his base that Arab citizens were voting in record numbers. He was right.

Results on Wednesday showed the two Israeli Arab parties are likely to have significantly increased their number of seats in parliament to about 17, well ahead of forecasts, after party leaders ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Before Hempfield teens take their seats each class period, they tuck their cellphones into a calculator caddy hanging on the wall, keeping their hands device-free throughout the lesson.

The system, first enforced this school year at the Westmoreland County district’s middle and high schools, permits students to use devices in ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are cratering. Even his Make America Great Again, or MAGA, diehards have reservations.

This fact was evident to me when I attended MAGA rallies in three states on Oct. 24-25, 2026. One was a Turning Point USA get-out-the-vote event outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Along with a few ...Read more

Inflation is causing real economic pain. Worries about healthcare costs have jumped sharply. And 7 in 10 Americans believe the country is in decline.

That is the landscape for the 2026 midterm election, according to a new survey from the American Communities Project at Michigan State University, which I direct.

The findings, ...Read more

My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor from Kostopol, Ukraine. Years after she passed away, I was trying to learn more about her life before the war – something I knew very little about. When I found a book called “Sefer Kostopol” – Hebrew for “Book of Kostopol” – I hoped to find her among its pages.

It was a memorial ...Read more