LAS VEGAS — Touted as a civil engineering marvel before construction even began, the immense Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge hangs about 90 stories above the Colorado River, overlooking the storied Hoover Dam.

There was a time when the most viable artery connecting Southern Nevada to neighboring Arizona — for cars and big ...Read more

Italy’s Roberto Vannacci, the insurgent ultranationalist, has yet to meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni or have contact with her circle, as his rise begins to reshape her right-wing alliance before next year’s election.

“I’m not formally in touch with any representative of the center-right alliance,” Vannacci told Bloomberg News ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The countdown is on for where the new U.S. Space Academy will call home — and Florida leaders are throwing the state’s name in the ring.

“We strongly believe Florida is uniquely positioned to host this important institution,” a bipartisan letter from the state’s congressional delegation argued.

President Donald ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five people were arrested Thursday after local and state law enforcement officials discovered about 2,400 catalytic converters they say are linked to a theft ring.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department announced Friday that it worked with several assisting agencies to serve search warrants across Orange and L.A. counties. Two ...Read more

NEW YORK — The grieving family of an MTA trackworker killed by an oncoming D train in the Bronx is demanding a full and thorough investigation into the fatal crash that tore a cherished mom away from her three children and twin sister.

“There’s no way to go around it. We just want the truth,” Thomas Tyrell, the brother-in-law of MTA ...Read more

NEW YORK — On the morning of 9/11, Police Officer John William Perry was standing in the NYPD’s retirement office, about to turn in his papers, when he learned that a hijacked jet had slammed into the World Trade Center.

Without a second thought, he ditched his paperwork and ran to the towers, where he died in the collapse.

On Saturday, a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles federal public defender's office on Friday joined a renewed effort to oust Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Southern California, accusing the government of "playing shadow games with the most consequential powers a government can wield against its population."

Citing a recent order from the 9th Circuit...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A gray wolf was spotted in Lake County, a bright sign that the recovering endangered species is expanding its presence in California, wildlife officials say.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife received two reports of a rare gray wolf sighting and photos of the carnivore in late August in an area where Mendocino, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Pay problems are continuing for some Baltimore City Public Schools employees weeks into the new school year, while roughly 100 Baltimore County school employees were affected by a separate payroll issue this week.

City Schools could not confirm Friday whether the last seven of more than 200 pay cases identified before the school ...Read more

NEW YORK — Attacks on elderly straphangers are fueling a spike in felony assaults within the New York City subway system, NYPD Transit Chief Gulotta said Friday.

As the New York Police Department contends with a 9% jump in felony assaults in the city transit system this year, the department’s transit chief said roughly half of all attacks ...Read more

MIAMI — For decades the Cuban government denounced plots by one of its arch-enemies, the radical anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles, whom Washington and Havana suspected of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines jetliner that killed 73 people and was behind several attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.

As it happens, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stephen Siller, whose firefighter dad perished on 9/11 after running 2 miles through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with 60 pounds of gear on his back, doesn’t want the next generation to forget the heroism and sacrifices of that day even though 25 years have now passed.

For the past four months Stephen, has been touring the United ...Read more

Weeks after thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants saw the end of their protected status in the U.S., exposing them to ICE arrest and deportation, more than 170,000 people from El Salvador now face the same fate.

And soon.

Temporary protected status for the Central American nation is set to end on Sept. 9, a deadline that’s provoked ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho woman who was raped by her Lyft driver is suing the popular ride-sharing company, seeking to hold it liable.

The woman was strangled and raped by her Lyft driver in August 2024, according to the lawsuit. The driver was found guilty at trial in June of kidnapping, rape and forcible penetration by use of a foreign object...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for more than three hours of talks in Moscow that a Kremlin aide called “highly useful,” setting the stage for the pair’s planned trip to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian leaders on Sunday.

Putin’s meeting with President Donald Trump’s envoys was “substantive, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — An executive order signed by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill blocking federal immigration agents from using nonpublic state property does not violate the constitution, a federal judge ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner dismissed the lawsuit by President Donald Trump’s administration against Sherrill over her ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is seeing either a later-than-usual COVID-19 bump or an earlier-than-expected start to the fall and winter respiratory-illness season, complicating decisions for people trying to time their vaccinations.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s most recent data showed 20 hospitalizations for COVID-19, ...Read more

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for world maps to more accurately reflect the relative size of Africa and other regions, over the objections of the U.S.

The so-called Mercator projection, in use since the 16th century, makes Africa look comparatively small while inflating the size of land masses ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A shark drone photographer captured extraordinary footage of a great white circling a swimmer off the coast of Santa Barbara.

Carlos Gauna, who has been documenting sharks for roughly a decade, regularly posts such videos to his YouTube channel, TheMalibuArtist. His work has helped people learn that the apex predators are around...Read more

In a village on the edge of Germany’s Harz mountains, families gathering at a beer-and-bratwurst summer picnic lined up for autographs and selfies from the man they want to lead the country’s first far-right state government since World War II.

Ulrich Siegmund, leader of the Alternative for Germany party in the eastern state of Saxony-...Read more