Before Rick Walker retired and became an owl monitor at the Rainbow Owl Preserve in the northwest valley, he was a dentist in New Orleans.

Walker said there’s a common thread between the two pursuits: watching his patients and the western burrowing owls grow up.

“It was great because you got to see families grow up,” he said. “Same ...Read more

The U.S. paused an almost two-week run of strikes against Iran for a second night while the Islamic Republic signaled it was refraining from any retaliatory attacks and held talks with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz.

After striking Iran for 13 days, the U.S. has apparently held off since late Friday without any explanation or announcement, ...Read more

German police fanned out in pursuit of the suspect in a deadly van ramming at Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday night that authorities called an Islamist terror attack.

Speaking at a press conference, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt identified the fugitive as German-born Abdul Ballout, 21, a citizen whose mother was naturalized in ...Read more

For much of Narendra Modi’s 12 years ruling India, he’s looked nearly unbeatable at the polls. This weekend he swiftly yielded to a group that didn’t exist a few months ago, energizing opponents who have struggled to rattle one of the nation’s most powerful leaders ever.

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday to take...Read more

CHICAGO — On a May morning, Immigration Judge Peter Kim’s Loop courtroom offered a scene that would help explain how Chicago would soon lead the nation in deportation orders.

In notes kept by a volunteer group of court observers, they described an overflowing courtroom, with people standing two rows deep up to an interpreter’s desk. One ...Read more

As he prepared to take office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani made national headlines about whether he could revive integration efforts in New York City’s public schools.

Those questions resurfaced this month after the incoming classes at the specialized high schools — eight competitive public schools that admit students based on the results of one ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities are investigating a hate crime after a beloved Pasadena mural was vandalized this week with an antisemitic message and swastikas.

The incident took place Friday on the 1400 block of North Altadena Drive in the unincorporated area of Pasadena, according to the Altadena Sheriff’s Station. It was unclear to ...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he will appeal directly to President Donald Trump over new tariffs announced by Washington, describing the levies as unjustified.

Albanese said he would “absolutely” raise the topic with Trump, when asked during an interview on ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday. The Trump administration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles water system is so old — and money for replacements is exceedingly scarce — that officials are left playing a dangerous game of triage.

They know huge swaths of the system are in desperate need of replacement. But with limited time and money, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has no choice but to ...Read more

Flávio Bolsonaro is forging ahead with his campaign for Brazil’s presidency after a chaotic week marked by fresh legal trouble and an uneasy truce with his stepmother.

Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party officially nominated the senator on Saturday at a national convention in Sao Paulo, with allies including Argentina’s Javier Milei in attendance....Read more

Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly U.S. strikes on Iran raised fresh questions about President Donald Trump’s strategy in the war.

The Houthis, Islamist militants based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said they fired missiles and drones at facilities linked to oil giant ...Read more

The last residents evacuated by the massive Aspen Acres fire in southern Colorado were allowed to return home Saturday, but thunderstorms could cause flash flooding in the fire’s burn scar.

As of Saturday morning, all mandatory evacuation zones had been downgraded to pre-evacuation status or cleared, according to an update from fire officials...Read more

A 78-year-old woman died and 22 other others, including more than a dozen firefighters, were injured after a massive blaze ripped through a Queens home Saturday morning, police and FDNY officials said.

Flames erupted about 9:50 a.m. on the first floor of the two-story home on College Point Blvd. near 41st Road in Flushing, before spreading to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Approximately 50 demonstrators gathered Saturday morning in Pasadena as part of a national action to honor lives lost during immigration enforcement operations and in detention centers during the Trump administration.

They wore flyers around their necks, hung with yellow thread, bearing the smiling faces and names of some of ...Read more

CHICAGO — In 2013, the closures of 49 public schools were referred to by then-Chicago Teachers Union chief Karen Lewis as “a scorched earth policy,” not an education plan.

When the Chicago Board of Education approved the closures that affected the city’s South and West Side neighborhoods, tears were shed, insults were exchanged, and ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Outside St. Paul’s largest homeless encampment in an out-of-the-way East Side park near the river, a small army of outreach workers, case managers and social workers were set up behind a bank of laptops under white pop-up tents.

The encampment’s residents lined up to plug back into Ramsey County welfare systems and try ...Read more

Brazil has denied visas to two senior U.S. State Department officials whom the Trump administration planned to send to scrutinize the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before the Oct. 4 presidential vote.

The Brazilian Foreign Ministry confirmed to Bloomberg News that it had denied the visas. The government saw the ...Read more

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks, in a rare public nudge toward peace from one of Moscow’s closest partners.

Tokayev, speaking at a meeting with Putin in the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday, said ...Read more

Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly U.S. strikes on Iran raised fresh questions about President Donald Trump’s strategy in the war.

The Houthis, Islamist militants based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said they fired missiles and drones at facilities linked to oil giant ...Read more

Chandler Bondurant fly-fishes in the Boise River every day, but since the first week of July, the only thing he’s caught is slime.

“It’s pretty much unfishable in town,” Bondurant told the Idaho Statesman.

As soon as he casts his line, brown globs floating through the water get caught on his hook and the knots in his line. “If you ...Read more