LAS VEGAS — Since February, University Medical Center has advertised online for a forensic or child abuse pediatrician.

As of Thursday, no one had applied.

Multiple experts said in recent interviews that Nevada has no board-certified child abuse pediatrician, a doctor whose extensive training ideally enables them to tell whether or not an ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man who fell unconscious on a Bronx street after fighting a rival early Saturday was run over by two passing vehicles, one a marked NYPD police cruiser, police said.

The grisly death was one of two fatal crashes on city streets within two hours, cops said. In a second, unrelated incident, a 66-year-old man crossing Ninth Ave. in ...Read more

More than 20,000 people were ordered to evacuate one of Canada’s top wine-producing regions as an uncontrolled wildfire spread rapidly, forcing local authorities to declare a province-wide state of emergency.

Authorities ordered the town of Summerland and nearby communities in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley to be evacuated on Saturday ...Read more

The Trump administration is dialing up pressure on Florida oil magnate and Republican Party donor Harry Sargeant III to divest from Venezuela.

The Treasury Department on Friday froze the assets of Sargeant’s offshore company that participates in Venezuelan oil-producing ventures, according to people with knowledge of the measure who declined ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Young family hired South Chicago Chapel to prepare Keith, one of seven siblings, father of three and garage door installer, for his visitation. They gathered at a Baptist church on the West Side Thursday and waited to receive his body.

As the hours ticked by, the family grew anguished. They called the funeral home director, ...Read more

Iran said it’s “very close” to a deal with Oman on a new maritime transit route in the Strait of Hormuz, even as the Islamic Republic renewed a list of demands for the U.S. to agree to before the waterway would open.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that negotiators are closing in on temporary maritime transit ...Read more

Authorities ordered a town of 12,000 people in one of Canada’s top wine-producing regions to evacuate as an uncontrolled wildfire spreads.

Authorities ordered the town of Summerland in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley to be evacuated on Saturday morning as the Bald Range wildfire advanced toward the community. The fire, first reported ...Read more

NEW YORK — City Hall is identifying and terminating potentially hundreds of Haitian city employees living in the country under federal temporary protected status, an immigration program that President Donald Trump ended, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced.

In a statement put out late Friday night, Mamdani said that the White House has directed ...Read more

Two drones were sighted flying over a key military base in western Germany late on Thursday, just days after an armed unmanned aircraft was discovered at a major cargo hub in the country’s east.

The drones were spotted at the Mechernich army base close to the Belgian border around 10 p.m. local time on Thursday, a spokesperson for the German ...Read more

Ukraine has agreed not to target some non-Russian oil tankers and Black Sea infrastructure critical for exporting Kazakhstan’s crude after strikes on vessels last month halted loadings, according to a U.S. official.

Ukraine has set up points of contact to allow commercial shippers to communicate information and ensure safe passage, said the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday approved acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently lead the Department of Justice after a high-drama confirmation process.

The 50-49 vote to confirm Blanche fell mostly along party lines, with two Republicans breaking ranks to oppose him. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska ...Read more

LUMBERTON, N.C. — Soybean fields surround Angie Lowery’s home in Robeson County, on a plot of rural land in southeastern North Carolina. Dozens of antique gas station signs, 20 feet tall, dominate her front yard. A framed re-creation of "The Last Supper," Lone Ranger posters, and a 3-foot-wide tobacco harvesting basket adorn the walls of her...Read more

Mirakle Wright thought her peers’ opposition to generative artificial intelligence in a world increasingly beset with the technology evoked the convictions held by wartime pacifists.

“People have such negative feelings about AI. They’re becoming resisters — conscientious objectors,” said Wright, a University of Colorado, Boulder ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota police officers began leaving their jobs in droves in 2020 — after George Floyd’s killing by police — with many retiring early because of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Since then, more than 1,000 Minnesota police and firefighters have retired early because of a disability like PTSD — about as many as in the ...Read more

BALTMORE — Some Maryland prosecutors say heightened federal immigration enforcement is making it harder to hold offenders accountable, as fears of possible immigration arrests leave witnesses reluctant to report crimes or testify in court.

The concerns, voiced by prosecutors in some of the state’s largest jurisdictions, come after changes ...Read more

The window shade rose promptly at 6 p.m. The gallery was silent, apart from the humming of an air conditioning unit. A man lay flat on a gurney, covered in a white sheet and bound by six leather straps.

Twenty-seven people watched as he took his last breath.

On July 28, Dominick Occhicone became the 12th inmate to die by lethal injection in ...Read more

Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the left dedicated to answering a single question: How can Democrats win back the working class?

The answers come in different forms.

Sometimes it is veteran Vermont Sen. ...Read more