DURHAM, N.C. — Two Durham teens charged in an alleged medication abortion attempt appeared in court for the first time Wednesday morning.

Syeisha Johnson, 18, and Elijah Speight, 19, were arrested Tuesday, six days after Durham police say Johnson gave birth to a 31-week-old baby in a toilet at her home, The News & Observer previously ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the second time, Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi has been found guilty of killing a spouse — both times with a knife.

On Tuesday in San Diego County Superior Court, Olejniczak Marodi, 54, confessed to killing her wife, 49-year-old Cal Fire Capt. Rebecca Marodi, at their Ramona home on Feb. 17, 2025, according to Tanya Sierra, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man arrested in advance of President Donald Trump’s trip to the Trump National Golf Club had visited the facility twice in three days, wore a radio earpiece and took photographs of Secret Service agents at the Palos Verdes Peninsula facility, authorities allege.

After arresting him Sunday, authorities said they discovered a ...Read more

DETROIT — A week after the Gordie Howe International Bridge welcomed its first vehicle traffic, hundreds of hikers and bikers got their turn Wednesday as the span's multi-use path opened to crowds of eager users on both sides of the Detroit River.

Some exercisers lined up hours ahead of the 8 a.m. opening to try the new way to cross the ...Read more

Texas’ new ban on most hemp-derived THC products has only been in effect for a few days, but it’s already being challenged in court.

Members of the hemp industry have sued state lawmakers, arguing the new rules violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

The legal challenge comes as Texans are still trying to understand which products ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It remains unclear when Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro will appear in Minnesota to face criminal allegations that he shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis during the height of Operation Metro Surge earlier this year and later lied about it.

Castro, 52, has been held in the Cameron County ...Read more

The U.S. government’s top information security official warned that computer systems nationwide need to bolster their defenses to meet the growing threat of cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence.

During remarks Wednesday, Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Duffy said that the government and private-sector ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man arrested in advance of President Donald Trump’s trip to the Trump National Golf Club had visited the facility twice in three days, wore a radio earpiece and took photographs of Secret Service agents at the Palos Verdes Peninsula facility, authorities allege.

After arresting him Sunday, authorities said they discovered a ...Read more

DENVER — Former Vice President Mike Pence will join Colorado Christian University as a visiting faculty member for the coming academic year, the school announced this week.

Pence will travel to the private college’s Lakewood campus once a month for the 2026-27 term, CCU said in a press release on Tuesday. He’ll give lectures, lead ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As air quality regulators press for legal action against the operator of a cold-storage warehouse that burned in Boyle Heights, Lineage officials say they expect to spend $80 million to $100 million to clean up the site, which contains millions of pounds of rotting meat and has generated thousands of odor complaints.

Lineage ...Read more

MIAMI — It’s approaching the peak of hurricane season for South Florida, but the Atlantic is dead quiet.

This great news is likely to continue, according to an updated hurricane season prediction released Wednesday by Colorado State University. Forecasters at CSU dropped their predicted number of storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes from...Read more

DURHAM, N.C. — Two Durham teens were arrested Tuesday after the female teen allegedly took abortion-inducing medication while 31 weeks pregnant.

Syeisha Jadan Johnson, 18, is charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury on an unborn child, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and negligent child abuse inflicting serious ...Read more

MIAMI — A dispute over a diving spot during the lobster mini-season ended in what authorities say was an attempted murder after a man allegedly turned off a diver’s oxygen supply.

On July 29, around 5:30 a.m., a boat had stopped, and its occupants were preparing to dive at a known lobster location when a second boat, a 27- to 28-foot Gray ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants shielded from deportation lost that official protection Wednesday when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., lifted her stay that had blocked the Trump administration from carrying out its policy to end it.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes was forced to undo her stay preserving temporary protected ...Read more

MIAMI — After nearly three years of legal battles, a federal appeals court has upheld a Florida child-protection law — sometimes referred to as the "drag ban" — which drew strong criticism from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates and sparked nationwide discussions about censorship.

In an 8-5 opinion Tuesday, the majority of the full panel of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man arrested in advance of President Donald Trump’s trip to the Trump National Golf Club had visited the facility twice in three days, wore a radio ear piece and took photographs of Secret Service agents at the Palos Verdes Peninsula facility, authorities allege.

After arresting him Sunday, authorities said they discovered a...Read more

A 10-foot golden trophy made by the anonymous Washington, D.C.-based arts activist group Secret Handshake is officially going on tour. The satirical piece of protest art originally appeared on the National Mall three weeks ago, and later moved to Foley Square in Lower Manhattan. On Wednesday it's scheduled to pop up in Minneapolis, a ...Read more

Part of a SpaceX rocket, about the size of a school bus, is believed to have collided with the moon, independent scientists said Wednesday.

The rocket carried two lunar landers into space earlier this year, one for NASA and another from a Japanese company. After the lunar landers separated from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the team sought to ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ release date from federal prison, where he’s serving time for prostitution-related charges, has been delayed following last month’s fight with a fellow inmate.

The Bad Boy Records founder, 56, was arrested in September 2024 in relation to his sex marathons known as “freak-offs,” and found guilty by a New York ...Read more