NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani let a bill he opposed that requires New York City’s public school system to send $10,000 in checks to low-paid teacher aides become law on Wednesday without his signature.

The City Council passed the bill unanimously last month, with enough votes to override a veto if the mayor chose to do so — leaving ...Read more

BOSTON — Harvard Medical School will pay $53 million to settle the “despicable, abhorrent” body parts scandal that shocked the university and resulted in a string of convictions on charges related to the gruesome sale of human remains from the academic morgue.

The class action settlement was preliminarily approved in Suffolk Superior ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has returned to floating a bid for a legally forbidden third term, offering supporters and critics hints that he might try to remain in the White House in January 2029 — but he always stops short of explaining how he might do it or declaring what would be a Constitution-disregarding candidacy.

The pattern...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors are being ordered to turn over to a judge all grand jury material for her review in the case of dozens of people charged with plotting and participating in an anti-ICE demonstration inside a St. Paul church in January.

The order from U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino was issued Tuesday and sets an Aug. 25...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling this week has raised new questions about the legality of tactics used by the Trump administration to keep Bill Essayli atop the federal prosecutor's office in Los Angeles.

The federal appellate court ruled Monday that the Department of Justice cannot keep an official who has not been ...Read more

A group of Bay Area voters filed a lawsuit this week over a November regional sales tax measure that would fund struggling transit agencies, asking a judge to strike what they consider to be “misleading” and “biased” language from the ballot initiative.

In the lawsuit, which was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Monday, the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Collin County district judge who presided over Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial in June has been removed from a hearing Thursday that is set to determine if the 19-year-old should receive a new trial.

San Antonio Judge Sid Harle ruled to recuse Judge John Roach around 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to KXAS-TV reporting. ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s first round of government-opposition talks has brought cautious optimism to a process intended to produce meaningful political change – but what comes next, and what is not on the formal agenda, is also drawing concern.

The White House-backed talks are intended to discuss political reforms and eventually ...Read more

Seven months after President Donald Trump first predicted that Cuba would “fall” in comments shortly after the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro in a U.S. military raid, the prospects that regime change is coming to Cuba soon are receding.

The island’s communist leaders remain firmly in control despite unprecedented U.S. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Local DJ and rising star Omar David Panqueva, who goes by the stage name DJ TUNJO, and his husband, Santiago Páez, have been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on bond. But their legal fight to stay in the United States is far from over.

Panqueva, 26, and Páez, 27, of Colombia, were arrested by ICE agents ...Read more

DENVER — A female black bear attacked a man as he walked out of a laundry room at an apartment complex in the Colorado mountain community of EagleVail, state wildlife officials said.

The attack happened late Monday afternoon in the unincorporated community west of Vail in Eagle County when the man came across the bear and it swiped his arm. ...Read more

The United Arab Emirates’ decision to cut economic ties with Iran is likely to impose more pain on the Islamic Republic as it faces the loss of a vital trade link amid escalating tensions with the U.S.

As the war drags on, the U.S. is trying to ramp up economic pressure on the Islamic Republic, which an embargo from its most important partner...Read more

One light bulb. That was what electrification brought to my grandmother Mag’s two-story farmhouse in Boydton, Virginia. No one wrote down the year the rural electric cooperative workers brought the wire to her house in the late 1940s.

Newspapers celebrated rural electrification for making people’s lives better: People could run ...Read more

Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of an infamous terror attack: the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. On that Sunday morning, members of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, planted dynamite on the east side of the brown brick building.

The bomb went off in the midst of Sunday school, at 10:22 a.m...Read more

After Luigi Mangione was arrested in December 2024 in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the internet did what it often does: It turned something serious into a joke.

Nearly two years later, on Aug. 14, 2026, Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and admitted to shooting Thompson. He’s ...Read more

Since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump has issued over 270 executive orders.

That includes two orders issued in August 2026 addressing birthright citizenship, a subject seemingly settled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision. In June, the high court struck down Trump’s effort to deny citizenship to ...Read more

When survivors of trauma recount their experiences, they are often questioned because of how they relay their stories. They may have problems remembering what happened, or their memories may be jumbled or even contradictory. People hearing those stories – attorneys, reporters, healthcare workers or friends – may expect a clearer, linear ...Read more

The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Erica Schwartz, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 5, 2026, is only the second CDC director to face Senate confirmation. Congress adopted the process for the agency after the COVID-19 pandemic to bring more scrutiny to one of the country’s most consequential public health...Read more

WASHINGTON — The only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the Pacific departed Asia through Singapore last week en route to the Middle East, marking the latest step in a steady drawdown of American military assets across the region.

An armada of naval forces, alongside a constellation of air-defense and missile capabilities, has been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council has rescinded camping bans on a dozen locations in Hollywood, Echo Park and Silver Lake at the urging of the area's council member, who called the bans ineffective in addressing homelessness.

"Displacing our neighbors from block to block, or in many cases from district to district, doesn't help ...Read more