President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for the first state visit to China by a U.S. leader in nine years, as the world’s two largest economies look to stabilize ties with a summit playing out against the backdrop of the Iran war.

Air Force One touched down at the Beijing Capital International Airport slightly before 8 p.m. on Wednesday, ...Read more

The United Arab Emirates denied that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had visited the Gulf country, shortly after Israel said he made a “secret visit” to the UAE.

“The UAE reaffirms that its relations with Israel are public and conducted within the framework of the well-known and officially declared Abraham Accords, and are not ...Read more

LONDON — The United Kingdom’s governing Labour Party was headed for a divisive battle over the country’s top political office, as a leading Cabinet member prepared to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Allies of Wes Streeting, who hails from the right wing of the party, said on Wednesday that the health secretary was likely to quit ...Read more

Roads lined with looted and charred buildings, gun smoke hanging in the air and the presence of heavily armed men and boys are stark reminders of the relentless violence consuming Haiti’s volatile capital.

For humanitarian workers and medical providers inside Cité Soleil, the sprawling seaside slum long synonymous with poverty and gang ...Read more

Rainfall across much of California and the West has become more clustered in heavier storms, with longer dry spells in between.

The net effect is a drying out, researchers found in a new study. It isn’t just the western United States; the same is true in much of the rest of the world.

The research is the first to reveal how this ...Read more

DENVER — The end of the Colorado legislative session often is raucous and tense. But on Wednesday, the 2026 session’s conclusion was more muted — with no major last-minute deals and no major standoffs on pivotal policies as Gov. Jared Polis’ time in his position atop the Legislature nears an end.

Instead, there was cake.

Lawmakers in ...Read more

MIAMI — Marly Metayer, the mother of slain Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, has filed to run for her daughter’s city commission seat, records show.

Her campaign manager David Metellus said she filed to run for seat 3 on Tuesday. Marly Metayer’s name appears on the Coral Springs campaign finance portal along with four other �...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD crushed 200 dirt bikes, mopeds and scooters beneath the treads of two bulldozers outside a Sanitation Department garage on Staten Island Wednesday.

The demolished motorbikes were among more than 5,700 seized by police in New York City this year. The vehicles were snatched for being unregistered, uninsured, or having fake ...Read more

TORONTO — The western Canadian province of Alberta will appeal a court ruling that blocks a potential vote on separation from the country, after a judge found the government failed to meet its obligation to consult with Indigenous peoples.

The decision from the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta on Wednesday is a major setback for the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the days after she killed two boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk with her SUV, Rebecca Grossman never admitted culpability in the crash to her lover Scott Erickson, despite testimony from another witness saying she did, the ex-Dodgers pitcher testified from the stand Wednesday.

Erickson, who was driving his AMG Mercedes in ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court sent shock waves across the Palmetto State and beyond Wednesday when it announced it was overturning Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction in the 2021 deaths of his wife, Maggie, and youngest son Paul.

While the S.C. Supreme Court justices, who were unanimous in their ruling, said the ...Read more

Poor weather conditions Wednesday forced another scrub of a launch attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to International Space Station, which will have to wait until at least Friday for a backup attempt that could bring a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

Bad weather had already forced a scrub of a Tuesday attempt called ...Read more

United Launch Alliance is running short on usable hardware this year, having to rely on its dwindling supply of Atlas V rockets while it continues an investigation into what went wrong on the last launch of its successor rocket Vulcan.

Its next two launches will be the final Atlas V rockets set aside for commercial customer Amazon.

The first ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday morning the federal government will withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California.

The announcement came at a news conference about the government’s ongoing efforts to combat what it says is widespread fraud in social services. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prosecutors will move “aggressively” to retry Alex Murdaugh on murder charges by the end of the year, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told a news conference Wednesday.

Wilson and Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor who tried Murdaugh for the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son Paul, addressed the media just...Read more

Days after the state of Florida and federal government engaged in talks to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, officials told vendors the Everglades detention center is closing and detainees are expected to be moved out by early June, according to The New York Times.

The center held about 1,400 detainees and cost more than $1 million a day to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida commencement speaker’s speech praising artificial intelligence was meet with thunderous boos from graduates during a ceremony last week, a sign of how some young people dislike the technology’s encroachment into the workforce.

Gloria Caulfield, an executive from Tavistock Development Company...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — About 30 Minneapolis Fire Department employees, or roughly 7% of the 435-member force, are out on leave due to post-traumatic stress disorder, pushing up overtime costs and stretching resources.

PTSD has been an issue for Minneapolis police officers and firefighters since the 2020 riots over George Floyd’s killing by a police ...Read more