NEW YORK — A major wildfire that broke out Friday afternoon in a conservation area in South Jersey expanded to 1,000 acres overnight but was about 50% contained as of late Saturday morning.

Danny’s Wildfire was first reported around 12:25 p.m. in a remote area of the Peaslee Wildlife Management Area in Vineland, in northeastern Cumberland ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Virginia Department of Health confirmed the state’s first measles case of 2025 in a Saturday announcement.

The agency said a child 4 or under living in the state’s northwest health region contracted the disease after recent international travel.

“This first case of measles in Virginia this year is a reminder of ...Read more

A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The order, issued around 1 a.m. Saturday in Washington, came after detainees filed urgent requests in four courts to block their ...Read more

A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The order, issued around 1 a.m. Saturday in Washington, came after detainees filed urgent requests in four courts to block their ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising to run deeper deficits to cut income taxes and grow spending on infrastructure to reduce the country’s dependence on the U.S.

Carney’s plan would push the federal government’s shortfall to C$62.3 billion ($45 billion) this fiscal year and add C$129.2 billion in net new spending over the ...Read more

Iran’s foreign minister said his country has a “better understanding” with the U.S. on a range of principles after talks Saturday on Tehran’s nuclear program, with negotiations to continue next week.

“It was a good session, and the negotiations are moving forward,” Abbas Araghchi told Iran’s state TV on the Oman-mediated talks in ...Read more

Harvard University said it had no reason to doubt the seriousness or authenticity of a letter it received from the government this month despite it containing demands that were “astonishing in their overreach.”

What’s more, even if it was sent in error, as the New York Times reported, the administration has only intensified its attack on...Read more

A small plane crashed into a river in Nebraska, killing all three people onboard.

The aircraft fell from the sky on Friday and plunged into the Platte River south of Fremont around 8:15 p.m., the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Facebook.

Sgt. Brie Frank said first responders spanning multiple agencies descended on the ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For Creig Ewing, a former sports editor in Kentucky, “the anticipation of getting the bet in” became a draw he couldn’t resist.

“For me, it was mostly horse racing,” he said in a recent interview.

Ewing said his gambling problem developed on TwinSpires Betting, a website and app for betting on horse racing. He ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Luis Carlos José Marcano fled poverty but often found he was discriminated against for his tattoos. Frengel Reyes hoped for a better future but was branded a criminal.

They came seeking new opportunities but were deported. They thought they would be sent back to their home country, Venezuela. Instead, they were taken to a ...Read more

In an ideal world, Michelle would be a nurse helping patients in her homeland, Haiti. Gangs shattered those dreams when she narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt while walking to her Port-au-Prince nursing school in 2022.

Terrified, Michelle sought safety in the countryside. She fled to Miami less than a year later through a Biden-era ...Read more

Early this month, the U.S. Department of Education issued an ultimatum to K-12 public schools and state education agencies: Certify that you are not engaging in discrimination under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion, or risk losing federal funding — including billions in support for low-income students.

The backlash was immediate....Read more

The Trump administration is moving quickly to dramatically expand the nation’s capacity for detaining immigrants who do not have legal authorization to be in the United States.

The administration has largely turned to the for-profit, private prison industry to reopen or repurpose shuttered and aging facilities — many of which have been ...Read more

DENVER — Starting in summer 2026, ammunition sold in Colorado must be kept behind counters or in locked shelves under a law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.

House Bill 1133 requires ammo be accessible to customers only with the help of a store employee. It also generally prohibits the sale of ammo to people under the age of 18, though it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of Venezuelan men urgently filed requests to the U.S. Supreme Court, an appeals court and two federal courts to block their imminent deportation, saying President Donald Trump’s administration appears poised to send them to a notorious prison in El Salvador without the required chance for judicial review.

The flurry of ...Read more

David Walt received a presidential medal in January for inventions that have enabled genetic screening for in vitro fertilization, better disease diagnosis and improved crop resistance. His latest work involved early detection of Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, with the goal of developing new drugs to manage the debilitating loss of muscle ...Read more