BEIJING — A conciliatory President Donald Trump on Friday hailed success in his state visit to China, claiming a tonal reset with Xi Jinping despite departing Beijing with few concrete achievements.

The visual spectacle around Trump’s visit was itself considered a breakthrough by the two sides, who expressed an eagerness entering the talks...Read more

CHICAGO — There was a time, not so very long ago, when the most famous tavernkeeper in the history of this city could be found alone in the quiet, empty hours between last call and sunrise, placing chairs upside down on tables and sweeping the floor.

He was in one of the six taverns he owned, the oldest of the Billy Goat brood, on Hubbard ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Days of tension over stalled gun safety legislation in the Minnesota House erupted into yelling matches, with Democrats taking over the chamber and demanding Speaker Lisa Demuth hold a vote.

Democrats are staging a House chamber sit-in until Saturday over the lack of movement on the issue, a shift in tone that came just ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case also ended in a mistrial.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, had initially sent out a note at ...Read more

NEW YORK — The 68 boxes of pivotal documents about the toxins swirling over ground zero that the city claimed for years didn’t exist were actually discovered during a remodeling project and “carpet installation” at the city’s Department of Environmental Protection offices, city attorneys humbly admitted as a judge ordered agency heads ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal indictment charging Raúl Castro for the murders of four people in the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 is expected to be unsealed Wednesday, to coincide with a symbolic event at Miami’s Freedom Tower on Cuba’s independence day.

Two sources familiar with the investigation in Miami told the Miami ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case also ended in a mistrial.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, had initially sent out a note at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A new report by the California Department of Justice found that conditions at immigrant detention facilities in the state have worsened as surging arrests under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign led to overcrowding and insufficient medical care.

For the report, which was released Friday, California Justice ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — According to San Diego County vaccination records, about 6,800 of the 19,000 residents who received their initial mpox vaccination dose did not receive a follow-up booster shot, a fact that is increasingly important as the “clade I” version of the virus increasingly causes outbreaks worldwide.

San Diego officials this week ...Read more

The United States on Thursday unveiled terrorism and drug trafficking charges against an alleged senior leader of Venezuela’s feared Tren de Aragua gang after Colombian authorities extradited him to Houston, marking the first time a member of the criminal organization has been transferred from Colombia to face prosecution in the U.S.

Jose ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury Friday said it was deadlocked, unable to agree on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case ended in a mistrial for the same reason.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, sent out a third note at 11:20 a.m., reading, “We the jury ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Louisiana is a step closer to a new congressional map after the state Senate approved a plan Thursday that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, both held by Democrats.

The new map comes after the Supreme Court invalidated Louisiana’s current House map last month in a ruling that found the state had...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Carmen Benavides sat on the motel bed, holding her daughter Abrahannys’ hand. The 4-year-old lay on her back, awake, as if waiting for her mother’s voice.

“You are beautiful,” Benavides said in Spanish. “Who’s the most beautiful?”

She checked a monitor and feeding tube connected to the girl’s stomach. Abrahannys...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that patients can continue to get mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for medication abortion, via telehealth and by mail. At least for now.

A lower court had temporarily blocked this access nationwide in early May 2026. The case now returns to that lower court, although it may well make it back ...Read more

The FDA’s recent decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug had prolonged the lives of a third of the participants in a clinical trial.

“It was devastating news,” said Trisha Wise-Draper, a dermatologist at the University of Cincinnati ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he made no commitment to Chinese President Xi Jinping over Taiwan, and would make a decision soon over a planned $14 billion arms deal with the island.

“On Taiwan he feels very strongly, I made no commitment either way,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. The U.S. president said he would ...Read more

As July 4, 2026, approaches, Americans will be paying more attention than usual to events of 1776: the year the American Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Public historians, including filmmaker Ken Burns, have tried to offer a more inclusive view of the American Revolution, highlighting lesser-known patriots. But ...Read more

Cruise ships are convenient floating hotels by which to see far-flung parts of the world – but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of strangers packed into enclosed spaces for days or weeks, sharing dining rooms and high-touch surfaces such as elevator buttons and handrails, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed access to medication abortion via telemedicine and by mail to continue, blocking a decision at the appellate court level that had restricted the drug.

The justices granted emergency requests from the makers of mifepristone, Danco Laboratories LLC and GenBioPro Inc., after the New Orleans-...Read more