The National Hurricane Center on Sunday upped the odds that two systems, one in the Gulf, and the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Dolly, could develop.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, what had been Dolly for just one day last week but is now a strong tropical wave was producing an area of showers and thunderstorms from ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent began the week vowing an “economic onslaught” against Iran and its trading partners in a fresh bid to end the war. By the week’s end, countries with ties to Tehran had so far shrugged off the threat and analysts were left underwhelmed by the U.S. actions.

China, which buys 90% of Iran’s oil, issued a ...Read more

The U.S. plans to use its newfound assertion of control over billions of barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserve, President Donald Trump said Sunday.

“One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, in ...Read more

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a $4.3-billion sister to the Hubble and James Webb telescopes — launched into space Sunday morning on a SpaceX rocket with space enthusiasts and scientists from around the world looking on.

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists' inventory of planets outside...Read more

President Donald Trump is entering a critical stretch of his second term with a slew of resignations among his senior staff, forcing him to rely on an even smaller circle of aides.

Over the last month, Trump lost his chief spokesperson, his top legal adviser, a key national security adviser and his liaison to Capitol Hill. More senior officials...Read more

MIAMI — In the north and the south of the county, on the beach and at the cusp of the Everglades, in neighborhoods of all kinds, the number of students attending traditional public schools is down.

Overall, enrollment in traditional public schools in Miami has declined steadily for decades, but in recent years, the issue has become so ...Read more

A new plan by California lawmakers to help fund the state's struggling journalism organizations could advance in the coming days but faces an uncertain future.

Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, which in practice would provide direct cash...Read more

WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute.

The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation’s only remaining conventional uranium...Read more

Icelanders are on track to reject reopening membership talks with the European Union in Saturday’s referendum.

Opponents of negotiations with the 27-member block were narrowly ahead with 50.1% against 49.9% for supporters of the move after the majority of ballots was preliminarily counted, according to data presented by public broadcaster RUV...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After grappling with rancid odors and missed deadlines, Boyle Heights residents may finally get some relief, with air quality regulators confirming Saturday that millions of pounds of decaying food have been cleared from the burned Lineage Logistics facility.

South Coast Air Quality Management District said the company's removal...Read more

An 18-year-old boy died as a fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery tore through a Brooklyn apartment, FDNY officials said Saturday.

The blaze marked the second fatal fire in the city this year caused by a lithium-ion battery, officials said.

Neighbors said an explosion erupted inside a 12th-floor apartment at NYCHA’s Albany Houses on Troy ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After weeks of intense negotiation, state lawmakers on Friday reached a compromise on legislation to regulate energy use by California’s growing data center industry, action triggered by community anger over the facilities and fears of high utility bills in some communities.

The goal, according to legislators and ...Read more

RICHMOND, Calif. — A woman who miraculously survived being hit by an Amtrak train two years ago is now suing the city, arguing that its “long-standing failure” to maintain a fence by the railroad track is what caused the near-fatal crash.

The plaintiff, Carmen Hernandez, is far from having fully recovered from the “catastrophic” ...Read more

A federal judge this week ruled that the Trump administration unconstitutionally tried to suppress the free speech of noncitizen students who spoke out against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza by threatening deportation.

The decision was a win for The Stanford Daily student newspaper and an unnamed student who filed a lawsuit last August, ...Read more

A petroleum distributor has filed suit in federal court alleging it supplied $4 million worth of gasoline sold to multiple Freedom Fuel Network gas stations but has never been paid for it.

That is at least one reason, the civil suit claims, Freedom Fuel Network gas stations have been able to sell gas so cheaply after President Donald Trump ...Read more

Fernando Jauregui Ochoa had carefully depicted himself on social media as a trustworthy and successful Central California food truck builder.

His videos drew dozens of aspiring food truck owners, many of them immigrants like Ochoa, who entrusted him with their life savings in hopes of turning their dreams into a livelihood.

But Stanislaus ...Read more

With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur, California, a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday and into Saturday — sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.

The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded from ...Read more

Police have arrested the man who burst into flames inside a lower Manhattan building where Google has an office, officials said Saturday.

John Butch, 65, was charged with criminal mischief, arson and reckless endangerment while hospitalized, recuperating from severe burns he suffered when his backpack burst into flames inside the Hudson Square ...Read more