The Pennsylvania General Assembly has unanimously approved legislation that improves the state’s ability to investigate and prosecute internet crimes against children, sponsors of the bill said Wednesday.

House Bill 1098, sponsored by Rep. Jason Ortitay, a Republican from Cecil, would expand the investigation and prosecution of internet ...Read more

A 71-year-old man was killed early Thursday morning after a self-driving Tesla struck him as he was crossing Interstate 80 in Vallejo, the California Highway Patrol said.

Officers responded to a report of a crash on the westbound freeway around 2:35 a.m. Thursday, CHP said. When emergency responders arrived, they found the man's injuries had ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The string of El Niño-fueled storms that have closed roads, crumbled boardwalks and eroded beaches in Southern California in the summer and fall may have also brought a silver lining: a potential end in sight to the region's fire season, experts say.

Just a week after a 570-acre fire spread to hillside communities in Orange ...Read more

The late September death of a prominent British banking whistleblower has renewed interest on the expansive network of people connected to Jeffrey Epstein who have died, some under mysterious circumstances.

The latest death happened Sept. 23. Simon Andriesz, 57, a former British banker who exposed financial ties between Epstein and Trump’s ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For Alaskans who rely on federally funded services ranging from ferries to weather monitoring to energy projects, the first year of the second Trump administration was riddled with anxiety. Budget cuts, canceled grants and frozen funding streams became the norm, causing many Alaskans to wonder whether critical federal ...Read more

Christa Pike is now speaking in full sentences following her failed execution in September.

Pike’s ability to communicate has significantly improved amid her recovery, and she is now able to walk and move about on her own, her attorney told TMZ. Despite her strides forward though, doctors are still concerned about the potential for any long ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota law enforcement officials say the federal government is again refusing to share evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during Operation Metro Surge.

The abrupt change comes after previous statements from state officials that evidence sharing had begun and working relationships with federal officials ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Justice Department on Thursday announced a federal grand jury indictment of Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas on felony charges related to alleged marijuana drug trafficking and money laundering.

Prosecutors charged Lucas and six others, including her two daughters, with an alleged racketeering conspiracy involving marijuana ...Read more

The U.S. ordered the departure of some diplomats and their families from Saudi Arabia due to the threat from Houthi militants, as the Iran-backed group carried out more deadly strikes from Yemen.

Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran was evacuated on Thursday following an alarm whose trigger remained unknown, according to people familiar ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine continued to surge off the U.S. Atlantic coast while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system.

As of the 11 a.m. NHC advisory, Josephine was located about 200 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts and 420 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia moving northeast at 12 mph with maximum ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan's public colleges and universities lost thousands of students over the past year, according to initial data from the Michigan Association of State Universities, disrupting an enrollment stabilization after the COVID pandemic.

More than 5,200 fewer students are enrolled in the 15 public colleges and universities across the ...Read more

The U.S. ordered the departure of some diplomats and their families from Saudi Arabia due to the threat from Houthi militants, after the Iran-backed group carried out deadly strikes from Yemen.

Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran was evacuated on Thursday following an alarm whose trigger remained unknown, according to people familiar with ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida won’t get the next SpaceX Starship launch, but with the first of three launch towers on the Space Coast near completion, Elon Musk expects the company to build up the launch rate quickly.

“We expect Starship to fly weekly at some point in the first half of next year, and then second half of next year twice weekly ...Read more

NEW YORK — When Medet Fidian spent $310,000 on one of New York City’s 68 horse carriage medallions in 2022, it was his second shot at the American dream. His first was driving a yellow cab after arriving here from Turkey in 1996.

“When you say ‘New York,’ the first thing that comes to your mind is Lady Liberty — and then a yellow ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Korean War-era law enacted to ensure domestic firms could adequately supply the U.S. military has become a piggy bank of sorts for a range of industrial needs, including energy projects favored by the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers.

The money is coming from a $1 billion pot Republicans set aside for purchases using ...Read more

Five months after its founding, India’s Cockroach Janta Party, known as the CJP, has revealed what youth-led democratic movements can achieve – and how hard they are to sustain.

The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya ...Read more

Two brothers from Brazil’s richest family have emerged as opponents of right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s closely fought runoff election.

João and Walter Moreira Salles — scions of the Itau Unibanco Holding SA fortune with a combined net worth of $17.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires ...Read more

The U.S. ordered some diplomats and their families to leave Saudi Arabia because of the threat from Houthi militants, as the Iran-backed group carried out more strikes from Yemen.

At least four people were killed by attacks on an Aramco oil site and an eastern airport on Wednesday.

The moves come as tensions escalate across the Middle East, ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine continued to surge off the U.S. Atlantic coast while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system.

As of the 5 a.m. NHC advisory, the Josephine was located about 195 miles south-southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts and 475 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia moving northeast at 13 mph with ...Read more