WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that allow for counting mail ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive later.

The 5-4 decision rejects a Republican challenge to laws in California and 13 other mostly Democratic states which permit the counting of these late-arriving ballots.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a $117.6 billion budget Monday after vetoing $800 million from the spending plan approved by the Florida Legislature.

“The reality is we paid down the government debt, we maxed out our rainy day fund…and we really set up for what happens in the future,” DeSantis said of the trimmed down budget.

He signed the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume on Tuesday in Doha, after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.

“Iran has requested a meeting,” Trump said Monday in a post on Truth Social. “It will take place tomorrow in Doha.”

Shortly after, White House Press ...Read more

DENVER — Three wildfires burning in western Colorado have consumed roughly 44,000 acres, killed three firefighters and injured two, according to the responding agencies.

“Critical fire weather conditions” forecast each day this week could spur the wildfires’ growth across the state’s Western Slope and mountains, according to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down without comment President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million jury verdict for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan nearly 30 years ago.

None of the justices registered a dissent.

When Carroll reported the incident in a book, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Cook County residents will experience at least three days of dangerously hot conditions this week, officials have warned, as a heat dome builds over the Midwest and eastern U.S. and as Illinois is hit with its first heat wave of the summer. While chances for thunderstorms later in the week could cool off the area in time for the July...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down without comment President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5-million jury verdict for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan nearly 30 years ago.

None of the justices registered a dissent.

When Carroll reported the incident in a book, ...Read more

Debates over what visitors will see and experience in the nation’s capital city have taken center stage as Americans prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

For President Donald J. Trump, the event inspired a massive redevelopment project. Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has argued ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume Tuesday in Doha, after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.

“Iran has requested a meeting,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “It will take place tomorrow in Doha.”

The details of a fresh round of negotiations ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’s ready to continue talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war in Ukraine, while rejecting a proposal to halt long-range strikes that have proven damaging for both sides.

The Kremlin expects U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in ...Read more

They arrived with rescue dogs, sophisticated listening devices and cutting tools that can rip through concrete.

On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's international urban search and rescue team descended on a collapsed 10-story high-rise in Caraballeda, a coastal town devastated by Venezuela's back-to-back earthquakes, as part of ...Read more

Andy Burnham will pledge the biggest devolution of power in England in modern times in his first major speech since confirming his intention to succeed Keir Starmer as the U.K.’s prime minister.

The former Greater Manchester mayor will set out on Monday how he would “lift Britain back up” by handing more decision-making powers to local ...Read more

HARRISBURG — Three years after a bitter budget standoff over allowing state funding to be used for private school tuition, top Democrats in Harrisburg are ready to engage on school choice.

Legislative action and comments from a top House Democrat this week expressing openness to a federal school-choice program marked a notable change from ...Read more

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Drugs and the consequences of addiction are woven into the fabric of Jamie Madden's life.

Her earliest memory is of standing on the passenger seat of her dad's car as a toddler, wearing a peach-colored blouse, while he drove from their Kentucky home to Florida to pick up drugs. On a stop for a burger, she met Ronald McDonald...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.

Recess could very well be the most important 30 minutes of their school day for learning — and it has become a contested ...Read more

Willie Hudspeth had not set foot on the grounds of St. John’s Cemetery in nearly two years. The cemetery - in Pilot Point in northern Denton County - began in the late 1890s as a burial ground for formerly enslaved people.

Hudspeth, 80, shook his head in disbelief at the evidence of neglect he saw when he gained access to the property on a ...Read more

Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a U.S. opioid crisis.

Across a range of industries, Japan’s economic-security vulnerabilities have been on display in a ...Read more

President Donald Trump toured many of his renovation projects in Washington, DC, on Sunday, saying he would begin reconstruction of a city golf course along the Potomac River on Sept. 1.

In a social-media post, Trump complained about the state of the East Potomac Golf Links, one of three public golf courses in the nation’s capital. He said he...Read more

Two people were bitten, one killed, in separate alligator attacks in Central Florida over the weekend, according to a news release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife and Conservation Commission.

On Sunday, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and the FWC responded to calls about an alligator bite at the Econlockhatchee River near the Barr ...Read more