The pitches from Temple University came almost daily.

“You belong at Temple,” one email insisted. Another said, “Your future starts at Temple.”

Day, who asked that her last name not be used to protect her privacy, sifted through the barrage of emails as a Middletown, Del., high school senior graduating in 2024. She was ultimately ...Read more

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KYLE, Texas — Kenney Blewett was diagnosed with lung disease more than a decade ago but started experiencing flare-ups this year that made him feel like he couldn’t breathe.

Blewett ...Read more

Voters in four states will decide housing-related ballot measures in November, providing testing grounds for different strategies to boost affordable homes.

The six measures across California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the highest number in a single election year in at least two decades, according to Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan ...Read more

The Scott River, which flows out of mountain forests into a broad valley near the California-Oregon border, provides vital habitat for salmon that swim upstream from the ocean to spawn in the fall and winter.

But this year, portions of the river have been transformed into stretches of dry sand and gravel, while farmers have kept hayfields green...Read more

Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets have spent at least $3 million this year on lobbying and campaign contributions across the federal and state levels, according to a new report from the government watchdog group OpenSecrets.

Prediction market platforms say they are like commodity markets that offer contracts to ...Read more

Voters in Quebec elected a separatist political party for the first time in more than a decade, setting the stage for more strained relations with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government and an eventual referendum on the province’s independence from Canada.

The Parti Québécois won the election, Radio-Canada declared shortly before 8:40 p....Read more

President Donald Trump pledged to pay for video ads with his personal funds — and money from his super political action committee — following ethical concerns about the messages that are running at taxpayer expense.

“The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S...Read more

Sen. Thom Tillis is continuing to needle White House officials in a string of media appearances this week, as the account of his 11-year career in Washington prepares to hit shelves on Tuesday.

Tillis — whose memoir “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents” comes out Oct. 6 — embarked on a series of press appearances on “60 ...Read more

Officials fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite National Park in California seemed to confirm last month what many already suspected: That the cause of the blaze (now burning for nearly three full weeks) was an abandoned campfire in an area just north of Wawona.

They’ve appeared to walk that back, some.

The fire’s official incident ...Read more

Artificial intelligence whistleblowers painted a dismal picture about the direction the technology is going at a City Council hearing Monday, warning local lawmakers to put in place regulations to slow its growth — even as the companies insist they’re operating with caution.

The rare Committee of the Whole meeting came as public fears ...Read more

Yemen's embattled government and a Saudi-led coalition have launched a major campaign aimed at dislodging Iran-backed Houthis who had recently seized vital parts of Yemen's Red Sea coast.

The offensive, which had already reclaimed territory overlooking a key waterway, marks a sharp escalation in what thus far been an ancillary conflict in the ...Read more

Nova Southeastern University took an unusual step Sunday of trying to reassure students about their on-campus safety after online comments claimed one of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting a woman at Cornell University in 2024 now attends the school in Broward County.

Jonathan Newell, 21, of Broward, and six other members of the Ivy ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from eight firefighters who sued Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue after they were placed on leave for refusing Washington's 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate, citing religious reasons.

With the Supreme Court not reviewing the decision, an appeals court ruling remains in place that said the Snohomish...Read more

Pennsylvania surpassed 1,000 measles cases Monday, crossing a grim milestone to rank among the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades.

Pennsylvania reported 106 new measles cases in the past week, totaling 1,004 this year. That includes 992 in the current outbreak that began in April, with Pennsylvania poised to soon surpass an outbreak in ...Read more

Billionaire Mark Cuban will assist a New Jersey panel Gov. Mikie Sherrill created to study how to halt the soaring price of healthcare for public workers in the state.

“I’ll volunteer to be on the committee that cuts health benefits cost. You need someone from the outside that is objective and can stand up to the big health care ...Read more

Federal authorities released Ho Yin Mo, a district employee for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, from an immigration detention center in Nevada after around two weeks in custody, the lawmaker announced on Friday.

Federal agents detained Mo on Sept. 17 as he was traveling through Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. A...Read more