Power is not expected to be restored until late Wednesday for some Michigan victims of the extreme weather that left as many as 500,000 without electricity over the July 4 holiday weekend.

DTE Energy, the provider for most of eastern Michigan, estimates that 85% of customers will be restored by end of day Sunday and 95% by the end of Monday. ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida is expanding the role of artificial intelligence to help local police track down immigrants, and one well-connected technology firm is getting most of that business from the Republican-run state.

Peregrine Technologies of San Francisco, whose lobbyists have close ties to Gov. Ron DeSantis, has an agreement with the ...Read more

A lawsuit that some say could cripple the state’s top water regulator is headed to trial in a Las Vegas courtroom next week.

Decades of back-and-forth between developers and the state has effectively ruined any chance of establishing Coyote Springs as an outpost of Las Vegas akin to Scottsdale, Arizona. Not one home stands in Coyote Springs ...Read more

Questions about political conflicts of interest have surfaced days ahead of a civil trial that experts say could hamstring the state’s top water regulator and cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

The trial over water rights at Coyote Springs, what was once a proposed satellite city northeast of Las Vegas, is the final act of a long saga ...Read more

Summer means more time outdoors — but it also means a greater chance of encountering ticks, according to pest experts.

California ranks among the nation’s worst states for ticks in 2025, according to a new report from pest control company Terminix.

The Golden State — particularly the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas — is one of the ...Read more

New mandatory evacuations were ordered Sunday morning for a nearly 4,000-acre wildfire burning near Leadville in Lake County, and a large swath of residents was placed on pre-evacuation.

The Willow fire is one of four active fires in Colorado that together have consumed more than 160,000 acres, forced thousands of evacuations and destroyed ...Read more

The loudest person in U.K. politics has suddenly gone quiet.

Rather than exploiting the interregnum between Keir Starmer and his likely successor as prime minister, Andy Burnham, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage appears to have taken an unusual break from public appearances.

It follows a string of election bruises for Farage, and some ...Read more

Eight people were shot and wounded, four of them children, by a gunman in a ski mask at a Coney Island family barbecue as the city grappled with a wave of overnight Fourth of July gun violence, police said Sunday.

A crowd was gathered for the cookout on W. 31st Street near Surf Avenue, just a block from the Brooklyn neighborhood’s famed ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday, while Trump also spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart.

Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in the call that lasted 85 minutes, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri ...Read more

Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care.

The culprit isn’t food poisoning – it’s the fallout...Read more

Popping up in some Pittsburgh neighborhoods are flyers with black-and-pink block print and an urgent message: "The AIDS crisis is not over. ADAP cuts are killing us.”

The flyers, referring to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, are part of a larger campaign by the revitalized nonprofit Act Up Pittsburgh to raise awareness about state funding cuts ...Read more

On a small Lancaster County farm last month, five of the eight King siblings sprawled on the living room floor, sucking on ice pops and listening to calming music, trying not to scratch their itchy skin.

The next county over, in Hershey, children were lying in hospital beds as their immune systems battled an infection damaging their organs.

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San Diego and San Jose are on the verge of a legal victory in a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s alleged withholding of funds from the cities’ task forces that are focused on investigating and prosecuting online child sexual exploitation.

The two cities sued the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year in San Diego federal court,...Read more

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church.

"We've got quite a spread of political beliefs," said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem's old textile mills. Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. ...Read more

President Donald Trump put himself centerstage for U.S. Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary and highlighted his own political priorities.

Trump spoke after 11 p.m. at the National Mall after thunderstorms earlier in the evening prompted the area to be cleared out of...Read more

Thunderstorms are set to batter July 4 celebrations in Washington, DC, and New York as a waning heat dome continues to test electricity grids in the eastern U.S., following record power demand over the past few days.

Attendees at Washington’s Salute to America celebration were told on Saturday evening to vacate the event grounds and find ...Read more

President Donald Trump was set to headline U.S. Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that seek to place him at the center of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Trump has made no secret of his joy at presiding over the July 4 festivities, portraying the timing as a side benefit of winning a second term starting in ...Read more

Thunderstorms are set to batter July 4 celebrations in Washington, DC, and New York as a waning heat dome continues to test electricity grids in the eastern U.S., following record power demand over the past few days.

Storms will likely move through the U.S. capital on Saturday night, helping to cool temperatures to lows of about 75 degrees, ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday.

Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in the call that lasted 85 minutes, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in an audio message to reporters.

“The ...Read more