Carmen Teresa Navas, the 82-year-old Venezuelan mother who spent months desperately searching prisons, military facilities and government offices for answers about her detained son, died Sunday just days after authorities admitted that he had died nearly a year ago while in state custody — a revelation that has intensified outrage over alleged...Read more

Keir Starmer will not set out a plan for leaving office, his spokesman said as pressure mounts on Britain’s prime minister to step aside to end the leadership crisis engulfing the ruling Labour Party.

“There will be no timetable for departure,” Tom Wells, Starmer’s official spokesman, told reporters on Monday. “The prime minister is ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers began a chaotic commute to work Monday as 11th-hour talks between the MTA and Long Island Rail Road workers failed to result in a contract.

The MTA and a consortium of unions sat at the bargaining table until about 1 a.m. Monday, but left without ending the strike, which has now gone into its third day.

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NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers began a chaotic commute to work Monday as 11th-hour talks between the MTA and Long Island Rail Road workers failed to result in a contract.

The MTA and a consortium of unions sat at the bargaining table until about 1 a.m. Monday, but left without ending the strike, which has now gone into its third day.

...Read more

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — In a midwife’s suburban Atlanta home with a playground and chicken coop outside, Madie Collins lay on an examination table while the midwife measured her pregnant belly. Unlike at many a doctor’s office, no crinkly paper sheet covered the table and no antiseptic chill lingered in the air. The room next door, where ...Read more

State education officials repeatedly raised concerns about possible fraud in the federally funded meals program during the pandemic, but their supervisors stopped them from taking more aggressive action, according to law enforcement interviews and other investigative records newly obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Front-line regulators ...Read more

As June 2024 came to a close, Gov. JB Pritzker was characteristically bullish while he marked the end of Pride Month by signing into law a requirement that Illinois’ largest nonprofit foundations disclose the demographic makeup of their boards of directors and officers.

“Here in Illinois, we reject hate, bigotry, and discrimination and ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran remained far apart Sunday on a deal to end weeks of war and reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz, as a drone attack sparked a fire at a United Arab Emirates nuclear plant, spotlighting the risks of a fragile ceasefire.

President Donald Trump made clear his patience is wearing thin, posting on social media Sunday that “For ...Read more

China has agreed to purchase at least $17 billion of agricultural products from the U.S. annually through 2028, the White House said in a fact sheet detailing President Donald Trump’s two-day summit in China.

A day earlier, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce released its own readout of the meeting, which said the U.S. and China will adopt a ...Read more

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is escalating its response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, after the World Health Organization labeled the outbreak a public health emergency.

The agency plans to deploy additional staff to the affected countries and will provide technical support...Read more

Peruvian electoral authorities officially confirmed conservative Keiko Fujimori and left-wing lawmaker Roberto Sánchez as candidates for a presidential runoff election on June 7, more than a month after the first round was held.

With all ballots counted, Fujimori took 17.2% of the vote in the first round on April 12, the National Jury of ...Read more

Just off Palm Canyon Drive in Borrego Springs, a dead honey mesquite tree remains rooted in the hot sand. It’s lifeless but not yet useless — not to the creatures that find shade under its branches or the plants that count on its nutrients.

Over the last year, mesquite has been at the heart of a growing water war in Borrego Springs, a tiny ...Read more

An Iraqi national was arrested Friday for what federal authorities have described as serving in a role with two foreign terrorist organizations and attempting to carry out an attack on a Jewish institution in Los Angeles.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, is facing several terrorism-related charges alleging that he worked with Kata'ib ...Read more

The thorny question of whether Britain should unwind a decade of estrangement from the European Union is resurfacing as the Labour Party starts to imagine a future beyond Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Two key figures have emerged as potential challengers after a series of political body blows that have left Starmer’s leadership in crisis, and ...Read more

Rescue crews responded Sunday to a crash during the Gunfighter Skies air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base. There was a midair collision two miles northwest of the base, the Mountain Home Air Force Base 366th Fighter Wing told the Idaho Statesman.

An announcer told the crowd shortly after 1 p.m. that all four Navy pilots were “found safe.�...Read more

The U.S. and Iran remained far apart on a deal to end weeks of war and reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, as a drone attack sparked a fire at a United Arab Emirates nuclear plant, spotlighting the risks of a fragile ceasefire.

President Donald Trump made clear his patience is wearing thin, posting on social media Sunday that “For ...Read more