Israel entered Rafah, a city that marks Gaza’s southern border crossing with Egypt, on May 7, 2024, launching a military offensive that the U.S. and others have cautioned Israel not to pursue.

President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 6 against expanding the Gaza war into Rafah, indicating that this...Read more

CHICAGO — Recurring anti-abortion protests outside a downtown women’s health clinic may soon be dampened by a new ordinance limiting nearby loud sounds.

Protesters have targeted the West Loop’s Family Planning Associates clinic at the intersection of West Washington Boulevard and North Desplaines Street for years, said Ald. Bill Conway, ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case issued an order Tuesday postponing the May 20 trial date. The order did not set a new date.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in the five-page order that the date will be reset by a separate order.

“The Court also ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Authorities on Tuesday found the body of José Mynor López, the final victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to be pulled from the Patapsco River.

Six weeks to the day since a massive cargo ship struck a support beam, sending the bridge and a construction crew fixing its potholes into the river, the bodies of all six men...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A woman thought she was being helpful when the Serbian man she had met on a dating app asked her to translate a message into Colombian Spanish, saying he needed it for a novel his friend was writing.

“I met someone wonderful,” the message began. “He has a summer house about 2h from Madrid. We are going there now ...Read more

California police officers will no longer be required to disclose their own gender identity when they report details of traffic stops to the state in an effort to end a lawsuit over the issue.

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Christopher Krueger last week approved a permanent injunction barring California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's office ...Read more

The New York Civil Liberties Union argued Tuesday that a judge should suspend Nassau County’s sports ban on transgender women and girls.

The civil liberties group made its case in a court more than 10 weeks after Nassau County issued the ban, which forbids transgender women and girls from participating in sports consistent with their gender ...Read more

An experimental spy satellite that was deemed “lost” after eluding detection for decades has finally been found.

“The S73-7 satellite has been rediscovered after being untracked for 25 years,” astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell said in an April 29 post on X, formerly Twitter. He says it reappeared on April 25, citing Space Force data.

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BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city tried for days to de-escalate the protest encampment at Emerson College, and protesters were even offered around-the-clock warming rooms in exchange for taking down their tents, but students refused the offer because they wanted to be arrested.

Wu’s latest comments Tuesday on GBH’s Boston ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene put her campaign to oust Speaker Mike Johnson on an indefinite pause Tuesday, saying she was no longer committed to forcing a vote on vacating the speaker’s office this week.

After meeting with Johnson for the second time in as many days, Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said they would ...Read more

U.S. Marines joined Filipino counterparts on May 5, 2024, for a mock battle at a telling location: a small, remote territory just 100 miles off the southern tip of the contested island of Taiwan.

The combat drill is part of the weekslong Exercise Balikatan that has brought together naval, air and ground forces of the Philippines and ...Read more

MIAMI — Barricades surrounded Miami Beach City Hall and dozens of police officers descended on the area Tuesday morning in anticipation of a pro-Palestinian rally calling on U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens, to withdraw her support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Protesters had advertised the event as taking place at Wilson’s Miami ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is a step closer to establishing city-funded intake centers for people in addiction after Mayor Cherelle L. Parker on Thursday proposed spending $100 million on new “triage and wellness facilities,” part of her pledge to end open-air drug markets.

While the mayor said the centers are a priority for her ...Read more

Over 20 kinds of “white coated confectionery items” sent to Target, Walmart, Dollar General and Hy-Vee distributors in 17 states have been recalled because they might have salmonella.

All the recalled products, which also went to some gas station convenience store chains, were made and recalled by Palmer Candy Company of Sioux Falls, Iowa. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis man has received a prison sentence of more than 16 years for the fatal fentanyl overdose of his 7-year-old son at his home after the boy ate pills that looked like children's vitamins.

Nelson Randolph III, 46, was sentenced Monday in Hennepin County District Court after jurors convicted him in March of second-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In January, fans and conservationists celebrated when the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission recommended landmark status for Marilyn Monroe's home, a crucial step in saving the residence from being demolished.

The new owners of the Brentwood property were less ecstatic. They sued the city of L.A. on Monday for the right ...Read more

CHICAGO — After the University of Chicago Police cleared a pro-Palestine protest encampment in a brief early morning raid, the main quad was calm with almost no trace of the student activists who had occupied it hours before.

Students and faculty walked to class, passing through the South Side campus where discolored grass replaced the tents ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — A president of a University of Connecticut fraternity is facing charges following an investigating into a hazing incident in February.

David Vallejo, 23, of Willington was recently arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, third-degree assault, third-degree strangulation/suffocation and second-degree unlawful restraint ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed election-year changes into law Tuesday that empower voter eligibility challenges, require more audits and tighten ballot security ahead of this year’s contentious presidential campaign.

The three-bill package reflects Republicans’ latest efforts to revise election rules in the wake of the 2020 ...Read more