CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration said Friday that more groups would be allowed to participate in next month’s Chicago Pride Parade but the declared compromise still left some in the city’s LGBTQ+ community frustrated and calling for the progressive mayor to ensure they are more involved in future decisions about the event...Read more

BALTIMORE — For weeks, Maria del Carmen Castellon had prayed for this very miracle, she told the crowd assembled Friday night in Baltimore.

She had prayed that her whole family, and all of their friends, could gather to say goodbye to her husband, Miguel Luna, who lost his life alongside five other construction workers from Brawner Builders ...Read more

TAMPA. Fla. — With little of the attention he’s given to other legislation this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday quietly signed two bills touted for removing “onerous” bureaucracy and red tape from public education.

The measures (SB 7002 and 7004) ended some reporting requirements for school districts but didn’t go as far as some ...Read more

Patients could wean themselves off blockbuster obesity drugs such as Ozempic or Wegovy without piling the pounds back on, according to a scientific study.

Data presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy on Sunday provides some of the first evidence that it could be possible to stop taking Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic or Wegovy ...Read more

Tesla Inc. faced further protests at its factory in Germany, where activists are trying to stop an expansion of the electric-car maker’s facilities that would require razing part of the surrounding forest.

Demonstrations are expected to continue through the weekend, after at least 16 people were arrested Friday following actions including ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The traffic stop started off calmly.

Two Fontana police officers pulled over a black sport utility vehicle in Yucaipa, and a male officer asked the driver about what appeared to be a missing front license plate. They chatted about camping in the snow — the vehicle had overland camping gear affixed to it — and the officer ...Read more

SEATTLE — Despite requests that they leave, protesters in the self-proclaimed liberated zone at the University of Washington said Saturday they have no intention of ending their encampment unless the school meets their demands.

The refusals come amid concerns over possible clashes between protesters and a pro-Israel march planned for campus ...Read more

Large numbers of California brown pelicans are turning up on shore with signs of malnutrition, prompting a California Department of Fish and Wildlife investigation.

California brown pelicans are a federally protected species, and Central and Southern California wildlife rehabilitation facilities have begun admitting “an unusually high number ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Palestinian cause is clearly resonating deeply with thousands of college students in New York and across the U.S. with anger over the violence in Gaza exploding into public view during the high-profile campus protests of the last few weeks.

To many, the intensity came as a surprise. But for students at Columbia University and ...Read more

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ opened her comments at the university's commencement ceremony Saturday by addressing recent student protests on the campus with a long and deeply influential legacy of student activism.

"I'm saddened by how this conflict has divided students, faculty and staff," Christ said. "While most of our campus ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — University of California, Los Angeles Chancellor Gene Block is facing faculty calls for his resignation and motions of no confidence and censure as criticism mounts against his leadership in the wake of a violent mob attack on pro-Palestinian protesters and a sweeping police takedown of their encampment that resulted in more than...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a solemn, pre-dawn ceremony, the flag that's been flying over the Minnesota State Capitol for decades was lowered for the last time Saturday.

Voices hushed in a crowd of more than a dozen onlookers at 5 a.m. as the old flag, with its Civil War-era imagery, was carefully carried from the darkened Capitol rooftop to the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pomona College has moved Sunday's commencement ceremony 30 miles away to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, after pro-Palestine protesters set up an encampment this week on the ceremony stage.

Tickets will be required to attend the 6 p.m. event, which the college said will include additional security measures. The college ...Read more

The debates and protests sparked by Israel's war in the Gaza Strip have worked their way into seemingly every corner in the world — even the free-spirited desert festival in Nevada known as Burning Man.

Organizers of the festival, where "radical self-expression" is one of its guiding principles, found themselves embroiled in controversy this ...Read more

ATLANTA — As community members at Emory University gathered by the hundreds on a Friday afternoon to rally in support of Palestinians and rebuke the chaotic clearing of a protest the day prior, more familiar scenes took place on the margins of the quad.

Groups of students dressed in white posed for photos with their academic regalia and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — At some colleges, protests, sit-ins and their latest iteration — encampments — have long been part of the campus culture.

At Swarthmore College, sit-ins go back at least to 1969, when students were calling for more Black student enrollment. The same is true at the University of Pennsylvania, where people still talk about ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Standing at a cloth-draped table where the Torah is read, Rabbi Sharon Brous delivered her Saturday sermon, recounting her experience at a recent UCLA protest.

Demonstrators draped in Israeli flags screamed at students in keffiyehs. The rhetoric was hateful, laced with threats of violence, she said.

"It felt like everyone was ...Read more