CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Iryna Zarutska’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit blaming the city of Charlotte and its contracted light rail security company for the train stabbing death of the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee one year ago.

Zarutska and her family were living in Charlotte after fleeing the Ukraine war when DeCarlos Brown, Jr. ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed Thursday as it tried to land near a remote radar site on the Bering Sea coast in Southwest Alaska, killing all on board.

The crash occurred as the plane landed at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, authorities said Friday. The remote radar site, one of 15 across ...Read more

DETROIT — Evidence suggests a wanna-be Islamic State terrorist from Dearborn used artificial intelligence to help plan a mass shooting while helping scout targets that included Cedar Point and a Ferndale dance club, according to federal prosecutors.

The allegations emerged during a Friday detention hearing in federal court in Detroit as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new plan to temporarily allow more tariff-free foreign beef into the U.S. in an effort to bring down prices has only ramped up tensions with domestic cattle ranchers, who warn the policy could hurt both U.S. producers and consumers.

The backlash comes as Republicans face mounting pressure over the cost ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a bill Thursday that offers greater protections for reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare — both for patients and for providers in the state — by making it a crime to intervene against such care.

The new law strengthens existing reproductive healthcare protections and also broadens them to now ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican state governor — wanted by U.S. authorities on charges of collaborating with the notorious Sinaloa cartel — returned to office Friday, more than three months after going on leave following his stunning federal indictment in New York.

Rubén Rocha Moya, governor of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, resumed his ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A once-dismissed lawsuit claiming Charlotte Latin School pushed “politicized curriculum” after the 2020 death of George Floyd has been renewed by the Republican-led N.C. Supreme Court — despite pushback from its Democrat judges.

Parents Nicole and Doug Turpin filed the lawsuit in 2024 saying the south Charlotte private...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to a Trump administration request to temporarily set aside an appellate court ruling that would have stalled above-ground construction on the planned White House ballroom.

The one-sentence order, signed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., did not provide any explanation for his decision, which...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Friday began tracking an area of low pressure that has a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory, the weak area of low pressure was located over the central subtropical Atlantic a few hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda and is producing ...Read more

The Trump administration is pushing to end the American Bar Association’s role in accrediting law schools, claiming the group is too liberal and is controlled by supporters of “woke” diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

The Department of Education suggests in a 500-page report it may not renew the group’s authorization to oversee ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis church is asking a federal judge to hold the Department of Homeland Security Investigations in contempt after it discovered the agency had infiltrated it as part of an effort to investigate alleged violence against federal immigration agents — despite a court order forbidding the feds from conducting immigration ...Read more

DENVER — Coloradans’ share of the Colorado River will not change under the federal government’s new operating plans for at least the next two years.

The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday published a highly anticipated plan for the Colorado River that will guide how the basin’s two major reservoirs will operate and how the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state’s workplace safety agency fined Blackbird Mountain Guides $151,300 for violations around the Feb. 17 avalanche near Tahoe that killed three of the company’s guides and six clients.

Cal-OSHA issued six citations to the company on Aug. 12, just ahead of the agency’s six-month deadline for completing an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday outlined potential changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, suggesting kids shots should be spread farther apart in contrast to recommendations from pediatric groups.

The request for information fulfills directives outlined in President Donald Trump’s executive order ...Read more

WASHINGTON — By continuing to tease a bid for a legally prohibited third term, President Donald Trump could delay what every second-term president resists: becoming a lame duck.

Any president approaching the final two years of their second term eventually becomes that weakest of political birds. Lawmakers, foreign governments, political ...Read more

What comes to mind when you think about preventing teen suicide? Crisis hotlines, maybe. Emergency interventions. Those matter – but prevention often starts earlier, in everyday relationships at home, school and in the community. A parent asking about a teenager’s day over dinner, for instance. Or a teacher helping a student find purpose ...Read more

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2026 nearly 11 million people will contract the virus that causes measles. Most of these cases will occur in Africa and Asia, but many countries in the Americas and Europe are reporting outbreaks affecting hundreds or thousands of people.

There is no treatment for measles, but vaccines ...Read more

The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of an early closing.

The fishing industry has said these developments are evidence that the management system is working as intended:...Read more