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

The U.S. and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other before peace talks resume this week over the Strait of Hormuz and other issues to end the war, Axios reported. It is a sign of de-escalation after several days of tit-for-tat attacks that tested a fragile truce.

The back-and-forth assaults over the key waterway for oil and gas trade ...Read more

Three wildfires sparked Saturday in a southwestern Colorado forest, with two of the blazes combining to consume thousands of acres and force evacuations, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

The Ferris, Far Draw and Doe Canyon fires were first reported Saturday afternoon in the San Juan National Forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service. As...Read more

The Kremlin expects U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in Ukraine once Washington is no longer preoccupied with the conflict with Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state television.

“We’re ready to continue negotiations and discussion of the...Read more

Wildfires in eastern Nevada escalated due to high winds and favorable conditions for fire growth Saturday, leading officials to elevate response efforts.

The Great Basin geographic area — spanning most of Nevada, Utah and southern Idaho — was moved to Preparedness Level 4 on Saturday, the Bureau of Land Management said in a release Sunday. ...Read more

An effort to locate a Marine missing from the USS Anchorage during integrated training off the Southern California coast has turned to a recovery effort, Navy officials announced late Saturday, June 27.

The Marine was aboard the amphibious ship and was part of the training with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit based at Camp Pendleton and the ...Read more

In what some claim is the Trump administration’s latest tactic to fast-track removal orders, the San Diego immigration court on a recent Friday scheduled a higher-than-usual number of hearings on a single day.

The move appeared to be the first local “mega” master calendar hearing, in which a large group of individuals in removal ...Read more

A controversial 8-foot fence erected by a billionaire ranch owner on long stretches of his property’s perimeter is harming wildlife and degrading habitat across a vast valley in southern Colorado, according to a report by wildlife experts made public this month.

The report by two environmental consulting firms — one chosen by the ranch’s ...Read more

Dozens of bees crawled along the frame in Frances Ratay’s hands as she looked down at the colony in awe.

The 70-year-old retiree from South Philadelphia ordinarily would avoid bees out of fear, but this spring she suited up for a study on therapeutic beekeeping at the Half Mad Honey apiary in the Navy Yard. Led by Temple University ...Read more

Tree swallows at a Great Lakes bird observatory are shrinking, a troubling finding that University of Michigan researchers said is tied to crashing insect populations in the region and world.

Tree swallows are small songbirds that primarily eat insects. As the amount and diversity of insects declined at the Long Point Bird Observatory in ...Read more

Tree swallows at a Great Lakes bird observatory are shrinking, a troubling finding that University of Michigan researchers said is tied to crashing insect populations in the region and world.

Tree swallows are small songbirds that primarily eat insects. As the amount and diversity of insects declined at the Long Point Bird Observatory in ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday continued to project a system could form in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida early this week.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the forecast calls for a low pressure area to form along the western end of a frontal system on Monday or Tuesday and threaten the southeastern United States.

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Experts with the National Hurricane Center are watching for potential tropical development from an area of low pressure that is forecast to emerge over the Atlantic Ocean off Florida or the U.S. Southeast coast.

The disturbance could develop later this week as it drifts west and interacts with a frontal boundary, experts said.

“This is a ...Read more