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Several laws restricting access to medications that can be used to terminate a pregnancy and others placing limits on minors’ access to sexual and reproductive healthcare — including the HPV vaccine — take effect ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell was “unconscious” at his home in Washington, D.C., before he was taken to the hospital around two weeks ago, according to EMS radio traffic shared by media outlets this week.

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CHICAGO — After nearly three years at the helm of the country’s second-largest police department, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling will retire on July 15.

“During the past three years, I have had the ...Read more

Venezuela’s earthquake catastrophe entered its seventh day Wednesday with the official death toll climbing to 2,295, while a deepening crisis over missing persons, displacements and deteriorating conditions in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Daredevils Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus climbed the Empire State Building Wednesday and unfurled a banner calling for peace.

Nikolau, 33, posted live footage of herself wandering around the skyscraper’s ...Read more

DENVER — New mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday morning for the Aspen Acres fire burning in Pueblo and Custer counties, according to law enforcement.

Homes in the area of Red Creek Ranch were placed on pre-...Read more

BOSTON — As the town of Newbury and residents of Plum Island are locked in a dispute over flying American flags during this week’s Independence Day celebrations and protecting endangered shorebirds, a nonprofit is ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The decommissioned amphibious warship USS Juneau, which operated out of Naval Base San Diego for 25 years, was sunk during a dramatic live-fire training exercise in the Philippine Sea, roughly 200 miles from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court capped its term Tuesday with one decision overturning a long-standing campaign finance limit and another turning aside President Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally change birthright ...Read more

Twenty-five years ago, I attended a Fourth of July parade in Boston that has stuck with me.

The head drummer of the colonial fife and drum band was a Black man in a Revolutionary War costume, his dreadlocks ...Read more

Data center projects continue to generate controversy around the country. In part, that’s because a variety of different groups have competing interests – some in favor of them, some opposed and others with no ...Read more

Federal authorities have arrested nearly 350 suspected members of Tren de Aragua in a series of separate enforcement operations carried out across the country in recent months, marking one of the most aggressive U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday took his first trip on his new luxe Air Force One, a retrofitted Boeing 747 worth an estimated $400 million transferred for free from the oil-rich Middle East nation of Qatar.

“I’m ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s homicide decline continued through the first half of 2026, with killings falling another 23% from the same period last year, according to data from the Baltimore Police Department.

The ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced the designation of several groups as terrorist organizations, using authority under a new law his office drafted.

The legislation lets the Florida ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago ended 2025 with $219 million more than expected in its main operating fund thanks in large part to solid tax collections and many departments spending less than they were supposed to, a top official in ...Read more

Three ransom notes delivered after “Today" show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared are not legitimate, according to a report.

The debunked messages include a pair of ransom notes received by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities' commissaries for items including tampons,...Read more