DENVER — Colorado libraries recorded a 25% decrease in challenges to their books, materials, events and exhibits in 2025 compared to the previous year.

Last year, public libraries across the state reported 43 challenges to their books, materials, events and exhibits and two challenges to Internet policies, according to data from the Colorado ...Read more

TOLEDO, Ohio — The little boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, wrapped himself around the nation's health secretary.

"What do you guys want to be when you grow up?" Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a carpet full of preschoolers.

"A dinosaur!" the boy replied, squeezing tighter.

Just weeks ago, Kennedy sat ...Read more

Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkevics nominated Andris Kulbergs of the United List party to form a new government after Prime Minister Evika Silina resigned on Thursday following a row over how the armed forces handled a drone incursion last week.

“Mr. Kulbergs enjoys my full support and trust,” Rinkevics told a news conference on Saturday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman was killed after crawling under a stopped Metro bus in Santa Monica on Friday afternoon, local investigators said.

Early findings from the Santa Monica Police Department say the woman suffered fatal injuries as the bus pulled away from its stop at Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard.

The Santa Monica Police Department ...Read more

More than a decade after failing in his bid to become U.K. prime minister, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has emerged as a key player in efforts to remove Keir Starmer from the post he once sought.

Miliband’s push to lead Labour to victory in the 2015 general election ended in bitter defeat after a three-year-long lead in the polls fizzled and ...Read more

Venezuela’s government said Alex Saab was deported from the country on Saturday over his alleged involvement in several crimes in the U.S.

Immigration authorities did not provide details on his final destination.

Saab, the Colombian businessman who became one of the former President Nicolás Maduro’s most influential financial operators, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's population is expected to decline or slow in growth through 2030 after the Great Lakes State recorded its fifth consecutive year of more people dying than being born.

The population phenomenon of "natural decrease" — where deaths exceeded births — that began in 2020 has continued annually through 2024, even as ...Read more

TROY, Mich. ― The chance to buy a new pocket watch drew several hundred people early Saturday to Somerset Mall in Troy.

But they were left disappointed after the crowd became so large and disruptive that police told them to disperse and the sale was canceled.

People gathered at the mall early Saturday to buy the Swatch x Audemars Piguet (...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A train boxcar where six migrants were found dead in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday originated from Long Beach, police officials said.

The six victims, from Honduras and Mexico, are believed to have died from heatstroke during the deadly journey, but officials on Thursday said they believed they boarded the boxcar on a Union Pacific ...Read more

NEW YORK — A distraught father recalled being caught between hope and despair: hope for his 6-year old twins critically injured in a raging fire at his Bronx home, and despair for the 1-year-old boy who didn’t make it out alive.

”I have all their names tattooed on my arm,” Kwesi Harris said after a Monday afternoon fire ripped through ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Nearly two weeks after FBI agents raided the businesses of state Sen. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth, she said she still knows nothing about the raid or what’s being investigated.

On May 6, a bevy of federal agents executed search warrants on the office and businesses of Lucas, including The Cannabis Outlet in Portsmouth. The FBI...Read more

As Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan walked through the grounds of a former government building turned soiled encampment during a recent visit to Haiti’s gang-plagued capital, she found herself thinking about the barriers facing women amid her own anger and speechlessness.

“There were four working toilets for this population of 6,000,” said ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As major pieces of his agenda stalled in his final session at the Minnesota Capitol, Gov. Tim Walz reframed his view of success around finding compromise in the most closely divided Legislature in state history.

Speaking to reporters in the session’s final days, Walz said the budget deal he struck with legislative leaders was ...Read more

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — El Niño is likely to show up sooner than previously expected, as early as late May, meaning it could have a better chance of hindering hurricanes later in the season, experts say.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in an update on Thursday that El Niño has an 82% chance of emerging from May to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Americans are skeptical that artificial intelligence will broadly benefit society. And they think politicians haven’t done enough to rein it in.

That’s according to a nationally representative survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Fewer than 2 in 10 Americans think ...Read more

DETROIT — Canadian officials told CBC News this week that the barrier to opening the Gordie Howe International Bridge may lie within broader negotiations rather than the bridge itself.

Evan Solomon, the Canadian federal minister for AI and the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, told CBC Friday that there were "...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth police officers shot to death two men in related encounters at separate locations early Saturday.

The first was a man holding a gun in the 4200 block of Wiman Drive in east Fort Worth, the chief of the city’s police department, Eddie Garcia, said. People in the area, where a party was being held, had heard ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department’s chief of patrol, effectively the second-in-command of the nation’s second-largest police department, will retire June 1, according to a department statement.

Jon Hein has led CPD’s patrol division since March 2024. Since the retirement of First Deputy Superintendent Yolanda Talley, he has been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge has denied a petition by State Farm and other insurers to dismiss two lawsuits accusing them of colluding to drive homeowners onto California's FAIR Plan.

The lawsuits, which accuse the insurers of violating the state's antirust and unfair competition laws, were largely upheld in a decision Thursday by Los ...Read more