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

In the face of amped-up federal immigration enforcement actions, Maryland has passed more laws that aim to protect the immigrants living within its borders than most states.

Baltimore’s Hispanic and Latino residents say they’re seeing fewer Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement actions – arrests or detentions, typically �...Read more

It was a blistering day in Butte County when a man revved his wheels in dry grass until a spark ignited, then pushed the flaming vehicle down a 60-foot hill.

Whipped by strong winds amid 100-plus degree temperatures, that spark grew into California's fourth-largest wildfire on record, ultimately scorching some 429,000 acres and destroying 427 ...Read more

Wildfire smoke is once again straining relationships between Minnesota and its neighbor to the north.

For the second year in a row, Minnesotans experienced some of the worst air quality in the world as hundreds of Canadian wildfires, along with more than a dozen in northern Minnesota, burned out of control and spread massive plumes of smoke ...Read more

India’s youth protesters called off their nationwide demonstrations after the government accepted their key demands including the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, marking rare concessions to a popular movement.

Federal ministers and leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party announced the agreement at a joint media briefing in...Read more

From his perch in the driver’s seat of a horse-drawn carriage eight feet above Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, Ahmet Bilici insists he sees all manner of bicycle offenses in Central Park and wonders what all the fuss surrounding his industry is about.

He says he’s seen reckless e-bike riders, dangerous delivery people, and lost count long ago ...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

India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after protests over exam paper leaks, marking the biggest concession yet by the government to one of the country’s largest student movements in years.

Pradhan said he submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a post on X. The recent events have ...Read more

Public health officials and infectious disease experts are urging Bay Area residents to take added precautions against COVID-19 as wastewater testing shows high concentrations of the virus in parts of the region.

Measurements at wastewater treatment plants in Santa Clara County and San Francisco have shown high concentrations of the virus over ...Read more

The Houthis claimed to have hit Saudi Arabia with missiles on Saturday morning, deepening their involvement in the Middle East war, while the U.S. appeared to end a run of 13 days of strikes on Iran.

Saudi authorities issued emergency warnings for the provinces of Jazan and Yanbu around 6:10 a.m. local time, asking people to seek shelter. It ...Read more

Fire broke out at the Tyumen oil refinery in Russia’s Ural region after a drone attack as Ukraine and Russia press intensifying strikes on each other’s critical infrastructure.

Emergency services are at work on the site, regional governor Alexander Moor said in Telegram post, without providing details about the damage.

The Tyumen facility,...Read more

President Donald Trump had gone mostly quiet on trade wars since the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs and the start of the Iran conflict in February, making many think his campaign of import taxes would fade until after the U.S. midterm elections in November.

“What we learned this week was that’s not true,” Josh Lipsky, vice ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As wildfires rage across Canada and the American West, the announcement from federal forecasters that an El Niño warming is forming thousands of miles away in the tropical Pacific Ocean may offer some regions relief — next year, at least.

The El Niño climate pattern materializes erratically every two to seven years and can ...Read more

Getting into an airline lounge these days is complicated: Some sell day passes. Others don’t. Some allow guests. Others charge extra. Certain elite-status members qualify automatically for entry while others need a combination of specific credit cards, fare classes or spending levels.

The post-pandemic travel boom, combined with rising demand...Read more