Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military closed two of the region’s few operating border crossings in Rafah, a southern Gazan city, on May 7, 2024.

Responding to political pressure and alarm, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Wendella engineer Miguel Chavez climbed down a ladder and over a small dock Wednesday to pull up a trap floating in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The size of a standard garbage can, the trap is designed to collect trash and can hold up to 44 pounds.

Chavez tapped the bin three times to release the contents into ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —Police began moving in early Friday morning to dismantle the 16-day old pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia police dressed in riot gear with zip ties and shields stood alongside Penn police as dozens of protesters chanted with their arms linked around the base of the university's iconic ...Read more

SpaceX’s plans to build a Starship launch complex at Kennedy Space Center are moving closer to reality even as it potentially takes over a launch site from neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it was beginning an Environmental Impact Statement for Starship launches from KSC’s Launch ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Legal Marijuana Now Party will no longer be recognized as a major political party in Minnesota after the state Supreme Court ruled Friday that they failed to meet legal requirements to maintain that status.

The unanimous ruling from the court directs the Secretary of State's office to "take all appropriate actions necessary...Read more

Right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon is likely headed to prison after a federal appeals court Friday upheld his conviction for defying the Congressional probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The hardline supporter of former President Donald Trump is on the hook for a four-month stint behind bars after a three-judge panel of the Washington D.C...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Roughly 14,400 gallons of untreated sewage forced Los Angeles County public health officials to warn people to stay out of the water at Dockweiler State Beach, Venice Beach and the surrounding area.

It's unclear when the closure will be lifted, but people should stay clear of the water and the wet sand from Ballona Creek to one ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ilya Tarshansky readily admits he’s not a great public speaker.

So, he sat Thursday evening in front of an audience of about 100 people at the Folsom Community Center and answered their questions as best as he could.

He’s a survivor of the Oct. 7 surprise Hamas militant attacks on Israel. Tarshansky, his 15-year-old ...Read more

DETROIT — A man from the Adrian area accused of threatening to kill Attorney General Dana Nessel and other Jewish members of state government is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge said Friday.

Tipton resident Jack Eugene Carpenter III, 42, is a delusional conspiracy theorist, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith wrote in an order, ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia started a new offensive around his country’s second-biggest city as Kremlin forces moved to breach the border in the northeast.

Artillery has so far been able to repel the assault in the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said during a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Kyiv on Friday. ...Read more

You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it's already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing the mineral zinc claim to be able to shorten the duration of your symptoms.

The promise of relief is tempting. But is it one these products can make ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Pro-Palestinian protesters and UNLV are at odds over reported meetings they’ve held regarding the university’s potential investments tied to Israel.

A UNLV organization that is part of a coalition of groups that have protested on the university’s amphitheater over the past couple of weeks claims to have met with the ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia started a new offensive around his country’s second-biggest city as Kremlin forces moved to breach the border in the northeast.

Artillery has so far been able to repel the assault in the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said during a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Kyiv on Friday. ...Read more

DENVER — Coloradans can expect two years of free college for qualifying students, long-term property tax reform after years of Band-Aid measures, and denser development following a legislative session that Democratic leaders called a “breakthrough” for many of their long-held policy goals.

A year removed from the bitter divisions and ...Read more

One key American official is quietly keeping Washington’s lines of communication open across the Middle East as the U.S. and Israel endure their worst falling-out in decades over the war in Gaza.

Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, a veteran diplomat and Arabic speaker, was in Cairo alongside Qatari and Egyptian mediators this...Read more

Wildwood and Donald Trump. Clout can't think of a more fitting pair.

A boardwalk renowned for its collection of politically incorrect T-shirts is about to get flooded with people who would love a "Let's Go Brandon" cut-off tank.

And Trump, who is facing federal indictments in four jurisdictions, is about to rally in a town where two of the ...Read more

Between the villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes in Normandy, France, is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte d’Or, or “golden coast.”

Since June 6, 1944, however, this beach has borne a different name: Omaha.

Eighty years ago, on a day now known as D-Day, thousands of Allied ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —The nation is in the middle of a contentious transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

It's a change either hailed by environmentalists for addressing climate change and public health or loathed by the oil and gas industry for killing jobs and being less reliable, efficient and affordable. And what the increase in ...Read more