Saturday, 31 May 2025

Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of Musk associate Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

President Donald Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA

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Authorities investigating death after burnt body found on Stone Mountain near Atlanta

Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose burnt body was found near the top of Stone Mountain outside Atlanta

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Friday, 30 May 2025

John Thrasher, former Florida State president and state House speaker, dies at 81

John Thrasher, a former Florida State University president and longtime state lawmaker, has died

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A Michigan bridge official died in 2010. It took 15 years to lay him to rest

A Michigan man who had a key role in building one of the longest bridges in the United States has been buried 15 years after his death

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Thursday, 29 May 2025

Nvidia rallies as the rest of Wall Street drifts after a US court blocks many of Trump's tariffs

A big rally for stocks that began in Asia is easing off the accelerator amid uncertainty about what will happen next after a U.S. court blocked many of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs

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Wednesday, 28 May 2025

California man’s 378-year sentence overturned after judge rules accuser may have made up charges

A Northern California man’s 378-year sentence for sexual assault has been overturned by a judge who said there was strong evidence that his adopted daughter made up the accusations to punish him and improve her prospects of remaining in the U.S. Ajay D...

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US peregrine falcons adapt well to city living as their coastal cousins struggle with bird flu

High above the bustle of cities across the country, the fastest birds on the planet are making nests, hatching young and snagging birds from the sky for meals

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Head of human smuggling plot gets 10 years after family of 4 froze to death on US-Canada border

The convicted ringleader of a human smuggling plot has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

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Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Orphaned cub finds comfort in a teddy bear and costumed caregivers

An orphaned black bear cub in California is being cared for by biologists in fur coats and bear masks

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Virginia capital under boil-water advisory after water treatment operations issues

Officials are issuing a boil-water advisory Tuesday in parts of Virginia’s capital city, leaving many residents without drinkable tap water following an operational issue at the city’s water treatment plant for the second time this year

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Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends judge who left court to arrest a hospitalized defendant

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Dane County judge who left court to try to arrest a hospitalized defendant and got into an argument with another defendant

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Wildfire damages Civil War-area historical site in New Mexico as campgrounds are evacuated

Campgrounds and a horse ranch were evacuated as a wildfire swept through a Civil War-era historical site in southern New Mexico

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Monday, 26 May 2025

Sensex Slides More Than 700 Points, Nifty Down 200 Points In Early Trade

Indian equities tumbled this morning after rallying for two days, with investors turning cautious ahead of the release of key data on the country's economic performance.

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Venus flytraps thrive in the Carolinas as hikers peek into their native ecosystem

Some of the most unique living things in the world — plants that supplement the nutrients they get from sunlight by digesting ants, flies and spiders — are only found in a small part of North and South Carolina

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Sunday, 25 May 2025

Sensex Rises Over 700 Points In Early Trade As Trump Delays EU Tariffs

The domestic benchmark indices opened higher today as India achieving a new high in the world's largest economy ranking boosted investors' sentiment.

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Scripps National Spelling Bee guide: How to watch

The best young spellers in the English language are set to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year

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2 arrested after baby dies at an illegal day care in California, officials say

A sheriff's office says a woman and her adult daughter have been arrested after an infant died at an illegal day care they were running in central California

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Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90

She was a prominent feminist and author of the 1960s and ’70s.

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Saturday, 24 May 2025

In their words: How recent presidents have honored America's fallen on Memorial Day

From Arlington National Cemetery outside the nation's capital to the American burial ground in Normandy, France, presidents customarily commemorate Memorial Day on hallowed ground

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Texas is closer to putting Ten Commandments in classrooms

A GOP proposal would make the state the nation's largest with such a mandate.

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Arsenal has upset Barcelona 1-0 to win the Women's Champions League final

Arsenal has upset Barcelona 1-0 to win the Women's Champions League final

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Friday, 23 May 2025

Purdue Fort Wayne dropping baseball and softball amid university budget cuts and revenue sharing

Purdue Fort Wayne will drop its baseball and softball programs immediately as part of university budget cuts and looming era of revenue sharing with athletes

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Colorado couple found guilty over cross burning meant to draw sympathy for Black candidate

A jury in Colorado has found that a couple who burned a cross to generate sympathy for a Black mayoral candidate is guilty of conveying false information about a threat

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Georgia man who fled with the nanny after his wife's killing is charged with murder 19 years later

A Georgia man who fled the U.S. with his family's live-in nanny after his wife was killed has been charged with her murder 19 years later

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Thursday, 22 May 2025

Thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck have been adopted

Thousands of chicks that were found abandoned in a postal service truck after three days have be adopted

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Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out

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Wednesday, 21 May 2025

What is Memorial Day and how has it evolved from its Civil War origins?

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members

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Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Sensex Up 267 Points, Market Bounce Back On Buying In Bank Stocks

Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded in early trade on Wednesday after heavy drubbing in the previous session amid buying in blue-chip bank stocks and a firm trend in Asian peers.

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Elon Musk's pullback from politics comes after his last big investment was a flop

Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk’s last big spend on a political campaign

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Longtime Kentucky firefighter died in powerful storm while shielding his wife from danger

Kentucky firefighter Leslie Leatherman answered the call for help when a late-night tornado plowed through his Laurel County community

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Monday, 19 May 2025

More storms threaten the central US as thousands recover from deadly tornadoes

The National Weather Service is warning of still more days of dangerous weather conditions across the central U.S. The agency issued the forecast Monday after four days of tornadoes, thunderstorms and heavy rain killed more than two dozen people

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Sheriff says 'defective' locks were a key factor in Louisiana jailbreak by 10 men

The sheriff who oversees the New Orleans jail where 10 men escaped last week says defective locks were a key factor in the jailbreak

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Authorities say suspect in California fertility clinic bombing left behind 'anti-pro-life' writings

A 25-year-old man believed to be responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic left behind “anti-pro-life” writings before carrying out the attack

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Sunday, 18 May 2025

Stock Market Opens Flat Amid Mixed Global Cues

The domestic benchmark indices opened flat on Monday amid mixed global cues, as selling was seen in the IT sector in the early trade.

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Search enters a third day for 7 escaped New Orleans jail inmates still at large

Law enforcement agencies have entered a third day of searching for seven of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail

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Romanians brace for results as polls close in high-stakes presidential runoff

Romanians brace for results as polls close in high-stakes presidential runoff

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Saturday, 17 May 2025

The FBI is investigating the explosion at a California fertility clinic as an act of terrorism

A law enforcement official says the person believed responsible for an explosion at a California fertility clinic posted online ramblings including a belief that the world should not be populated

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Mexican tall ship strikes Brooklyn Bridge, snapping masts and injuring sailors

A Mexican navy sailing ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge during a promotional tour in New York City

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Friday, 16 May 2025

Florida airport closes after vehicle catches fire in parking garage, officials say

Officials say a Florida airport was closed after a vehicle caught fire in a parking garage

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Board of Florida's only public HBCU picks a lobbyist with ties to DeSantis as its next president

The board of Florida’s only public historically Black university has chosen a lobbyist with ties to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the school’s next president, alarming students, faculty and alumni who are outraged by the governor’s efforts to rest...

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Thursday, 15 May 2025

Grand jury indicts Florida State student accused in mass shooting on campus

A grand jury has indicted a Florida State University student on murder charges for the killings of two people and the wounding of six others in a mass shooting on campus last month

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DeSantis signs bill making Florida second state to ban fluoride from its water system

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure that prohibits local governments from adding fluoride to water systems

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Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Georgetown student Badar Khan Suri has been released after nearly two months in immigration detention

Georgetown student Badar Khan Suri has been released after nearly two months in immigration detention

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Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore webpages related to climate change after it was sued earlier this year over the deletions

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2 more executions set in Florida, making it 6 so far in 2025

Florida is continuing its rapid pace of executions this year, with one convicted killer set to die this week and another on June 10 who would be the sixth person put to death by the state in 2025

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Monday, 12 May 2025

3 die in North Cascades National Park climbing fall

Sheriff's officials say three climbers from suburban Seattle have been killed in a fall in North Cascades National Park

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Four arrested in West Africa for extortion scheme linked to California teen's suicide

Three years after a California teenager died by suicide, four men in West Africa have been arrested on suspicion of participating in what investigators are calling an “international sextortion scheme” that targeted people in the U.S., Canada and Europe

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Harvard says it won't abandon 'core' principles to meet Education Department demands

Harvard University has responded to threats from the Education Department to halt grant funding to the Ivy League school

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Georgia becomes 2nd state to shield Roundup weed-killer maker from some cancer claims

Georgia has become the second state to provide a legal protections to the manufacturer of a popular weed killer

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USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

In a way, the requiem of a now dismantled agency that promoted U.S. security through development and humanitarian work abroad can be told through its people

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Sunday, 11 May 2025

Mother's Day apartment building fire kills 4, critically injures others in Milwaukee

Four people are dead and four others critically injured in a Milwaukee apartment building fire

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1st group of white South Africans heads for US after Trump offers them refugee status

A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration

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US touts 'substantial progress' in tariff talks with China, but details are still scarce

The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered “a great deal of productivity” in resolving differences between the world’s two leading economic powers, after officials wrapped two days of bargaining in Switzerland following President Donald...

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Saturday, 10 May 2025

A split jury and a lie sent him to prison. Now he’s working to change Louisiana’s law

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man

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Tufts University student back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center

A Tufts University student from Turkey has returned to Boston after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center

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Friday, 9 May 2025

15 states sue over Trump's move to fast-track oil and gas projects via his 'energy emergency' order

A coalition of 15 states is suing over President Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track energy-related projects, saying the administration is bypassing environmental protection laws and threatening endangered species, critical habitat and cultural resources

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Family of a helicopter pilot killed in a California wildfire reaches a $15 million settlement

The family of a pilot who died when his helicopter crashed while fighting a Southern California wildfire in 2020 has reached a $15 million settlement with the company that maintained the aircraft

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San Francisco region's commuter trains are running again after hours-long stoppage

The San Francisco region's commuter trains were running again after a malfunction shut the entire system down for several hours Friday morning

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Thursday, 8 May 2025

US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more

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Father of 15-year-old who killed 2 at Wisconsin religious school faces felony charges

The father of a Wisconsin teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting was charged with felonies Thursday in connection with the case, police said

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Man gored by bison in year's first attack by Yellowstone's most dangerous wild animal

Yellowstone National Park has recorded the year’s first violent encounter between a visitor and bison, just weeks into the busy summer season

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Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Hiker dead after fall at Utah's Arches National Park

Authorities say a 77-year-old man is dead after falling while hiking at Arches National Park in Utah

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Lawsuit accuses former Los Angeles Lakers star Byron Scott of sexually assaulting teen girl in 1987

A woman is suing former Los Angeles Lakers player and coach Byron Scott, accusing him of sexually assaulting her during a team event at a high school in 1987, when he was 26 and she was 15

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Vance says Russia was 'asking for too much' in its initial Ukraine peace offer

Vice President JD Vance says Russia was “asking for too much” in its initial peace offer as the United States looks to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine

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Baby seal stabbed on Oregon coast prompts search for suspect

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon

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Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Trump plans to announce the US will call Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say

President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia

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Trump Pentagon nominee under scrutiny in hearing for partisan comments

A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration is getting renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts

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Birmingham fights against losing control of its water board, citing racial discrimination

Birmingham city officials have sued the Alabama governor to stop him from signing of a bill that would strip the city of control over the state’s largest water board

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Michigan school shooter loses appeal in bid to withdraw guilty plea in 4 deaths

A Michigan court says it won’t accept an appeal from a school shooter who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for killing four students and wounding others

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Monday, 5 May 2025

What to know about flight delays and cancellations at Newark airport

Flight delays and cancellations are causing more chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City

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OpenAI says its nonprofit will continue to control its business

OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the business that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products

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Man goes on trial accused of 8 killings in metro Phoenix in 2017

Lawyers are scheduled to make opening statements at the trial of a man charged with carrying out a string of shootings that killed eight people in the Phoenix area over a three-week span in 2017

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Sunday, 4 May 2025

Nifty, Sensex Open Higher; Adani Ports Among Top Gainers

Indian equity indices opened in the green on Monday as heavyweights like Adani Ports, Asian Paints, Titan and Tata Motors continued to support upward movement.

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Indigenous people raise awareness about their missing and murdered

Indigenous people across North America are rallying to plead for sustained responses to violence in their communities

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University of Florida plans to hire school president Santa Ono away from University of Michigan

The University of Florida plans to hire school president Santa Ono away from the University of Michigan

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Saturday, 3 May 2025

Rain Barrel Village gives visitors a taste of old Florida and a photo op with a giant lobster

A holdover of the once numerous roadside attractions that lined U.S. 1 in Florida from Jacksonville to Key West, the Rain Barrel Village is a collection of eccentric, colorful buildings serving as a home for artists and art sellers in the Florida Keys

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Texas governor signs $1 billion voucher bill in milestone for school choice supporters nationally

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a $1 billion voucher program into law

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Investor Warren Buffett says he will retire at the end of the year from Berkshire Hathaway

Investor Warren Buffett says he will retire at the end of the year from Berkshire Hathaway

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Trump draws criticism with AI image of himself as the pope ahead of the papal conclave

President Donald Trump has posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope

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Friday, 2 May 2025

Florida GOP lawmakers create new hurdles for citizens' initiative process

Florida lawmakers have given final approval to creating new hurdles for getting citizen-driven initiatives on the ballot before voters

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US designates Haitian gangs as a foreign terror organization as experts warn of impact on aid

The U.S. has officially designated a powerful gang coalition in Haiti as a foreign terrorist organization, raising concerns the move could deepen the country’s humanitarian crisis

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Thursday, 1 May 2025

Millions of dimes spill onto Texas highway after truck rolls

Authorities say millions of coins spilled onto a Texas highway this week after a tractor-trailer hauling $800,000 in dimes rolled over in an accident

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Heavy rainfall sets records and washes out roadway in rural Oklahoma

A steady line of slow-moving thunderstorms that battered Oklahoma in recent weeks has set multiple rainfall records across the state and helped ease drought conditions

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