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A bill that would require insurers to factor in wildfire protection efforts when determining whether to cover properties moved forward Wednesday, despite concerns from lawmakers and strong opposition from insurance ...Read more

Gov. J.B. Pritzker used the release of a report on Black homelessness in Illinois to press the case for his proposal to increase funding on efforts to address the issue in next year’s budget by $50 million, which would ...Read more

The U.S. and 17 other nations pressed Hamas to release their citizens who are missing or held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in a bid to revive cease-fire talks that have stalled out in recent weeks and unlock more ...Read more

Short on funding and with barely enough hot meals to last for the next six weeks, the World Food Program is appealing for humanitarian assistance for Haiti.

The organization’s deputy executive director, fresh off a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment Thursday at City College of New York, with one passerby being driven away when a protester claimed she could “smell” he was a “Zionist.”

Concern about ...Read more

Haiti entered a new era of governance on Thursday with the official installation of a new nine-member presidential council in a two-part ceremony in the country’s gang-ridden capital.

In a last-minute decision, members ...Read more

BOSTON — The Karen Read murder trial, which has become a hot-button case not only locally but for true crime lovers across the nation, will be held in a much smaller courtroom.

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pro-Palestinian protests grew Thursday at California colleges and universities, including a new encampment at UCLA and demonstrations at UC Santa Barbara, a day after police in riot gear arrested 93 ...Read more

In a dramatic reversal of the nation’s landmark #MeToo trial, a New York appeals court on Thursday overturned the sex assault conviction of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

The state appeals court found, in a 4-3...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A Henderson, Nevada, couple were arrested after police found a boy with autism locked in a “makeshift jail cell” and their three other children living in a home smeared with feces, according to arrest ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s economic advisers are considering ways to actively stop nations from shifting away from using the dollar — an effort to counter budding moves among key emerging markets to...Read more

Kentucky’s U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was among three senators who missed Tuesday’s vote on the $95 billion foreign aid package providing weapons and equipment to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Two days later and his office won...Read more

Mike Pinder, a founding member and keyboardist of prog rock band the Moody Blues, has died. He was 82. Pinder was the last surviving original member of the band.

He passed away Wednesday at his Northern California home, ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers shipped Gov. Maura Healey a spending bill Thursday that hands her $426 million to spend on emergency shelters over the next year-plus and caps families’ time in the system at nine ...Read more

NEW YORK — As a deadline for Columbia University administrators and protesters to iron out a deal to clear a Gaza encampment edges closer, university officials are facing a lose-lose decision if students continue to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a small encampment inside the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea, Manhattan, on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, demonstrators stormed into The Museum at FIT on W. 27th ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves.

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on April 25, 2024, in a case that will change the course of American history. That case is Trump v. United States, in which the justices have been asked to decide whether and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Busta Rhymes is headlining AFRAM 2024 again, but this time, the Grammy Award-winning artist will be performing in person.

As the coronavirus pandemic raged in 2021, the rap star was part of a virtual all-...Read more

Amy Duggar King hopes that her cousin Josh Duggar, who is behind bars for receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials, is suffering for his actions.

“I hope every day there is absolute torture for him,” the ...Read more