An important moment for Apalachee High School is scheduled to occur at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday — students will return to class.

Classes have not taken place at the school, nestled in the small Barrow County community of Winder, Georgia, since Sept. 4. That is when authorities say a 14-year-old student shot and killed two students and two teachers ...Read more

Florida has told school districts around the state that they may not teach teenagers about contraception, show them pictures depicting human reproductive anatomy or discuss topics such as sexual consent and domestic violence, according to district officials and an advocate for comprehensive sexual health education.

As a result, Orange County ...Read more

For months, the U.S. has warned Iran not to send ballistic missiles to Russia and told China not to provide military components for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

But Iran is now doing just what Washington said not to and China is pushing the line. Indeed, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly worried by the speed and intensity with which the ...Read more

The exchange of fire — and of rhetoric — between Israel and Hezbollah intensified on Sunday as the Lebanon-based group launched about 115 rockets, missiles and drones toward vast areas of Israel’s north.

Hezbollah said it was targeting military facilities in retaliation for the pager and other electronic device explosions last week that ...Read more

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In early December 2021, I was seeing a physical therapist for a shoulder injury. During one of my visits, the therapist was alternating between me and another patient on an adjacent bed, who had a knee replacement. While the therapist worked on the other patient’s leg, stretching it and bending the knee, I ...Read more

California water regulators are cracking down on a second farming area in the San Joaquin Valley for failing to take adequate steps to curb overpumping that is depleting groundwater, causing the land to sink and damaging a canal that transports water for 1 million acres of farmland and more than 250,000 people.

The State Water Resources Control...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago was founded by a Haitian.

Chef Daniel Aurel, 26, wants people to know that. There is a large, vibrant mural of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable — the city’s founder — on the outside of his family-owned restaurant Lior’s Cafe in Chicago's Washington Heights neighborhood, one of the few restaurants where customers can sit ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.

Officers gave him a ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Roughly three years ago near Eagle Pass, Texas, a mother of three waded through the Rio Grande to reach U.S. soil, with her then one-year-old daughter in her arms. The family had fled threats of violence in their hometown of La Ceiba, a Caribbean port city in northern Honduras.

Life in metro Atlanta, where they soon settled, brought ...Read more

The Biden administration has launched a new initiative to crack down on smugglers at U.S. borders and ports. The concern isn’t drugs or counterfeit goods, though; it’s a refrigerant that’s also a dangerous greenhouse gas.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Customs and Border Protection and other agencies are arming themselves with new ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chris Murray was homeless, living on Lower Wacker Drive, after his mother died from COVID-19 in 2020. Her death, he said, caused him to go “off the deep end.” His heroin addiction grew worse, and he lost his job.

Nonprofit and social service groups would come around to offer housing support, but Murray, now 37, said he was ...Read more

Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed new emergency restrictions on California's hemp industry, citing an urgent need to protect children. His concern: a class of loosely regulated products that contain intoxicating levels of THC, the compound known for causing cannabis highs.

While many agree some changes are necessary, a number of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 3 earthquake occurred just north of Malibu Saturday afternoon, the latest in a cluster of temblors reported over the last week and a half.

The latest earthquake occurred at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, with an epicenter along Kanan Dume Road, about 3.6 miles north of Point Dume.

Saturday’s event was the sixth earthquake of...Read more

A Sri Lankan leftist politician who’s pledged to fight corruption in the crisis-hit economy took a convincing early lead as votes were counted in Saturday’s presidential election.

With results of postal ballots in 18 of 22 electoral districts released so far, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was ahead with 55.9% of the vote, local media including ...Read more

The human-sparked Pearl fire burning west of Fort Collins in Larimer County is 90% contained, fire officials announced Saturday.

At 4 p.m. Saturday, Larimer County officials issued an “All Clear” for the wildfire, lifting all remaining evacuation orders and allowing normal activity in the area to resume.

The Pearl fire — a wildfire that ...Read more

President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic saying China is “testing” the U.S. and its allies in the Indo-Pacific region during a Quad leaders’ summit — even as the bloc’s members in their public remarks sidestepped the idea that they are a counterweight to Chinese influence.

The Quad leaders, Biden and prime ministers Narendra Modi ...Read more

President Joe Biden is spending the final months of his term tightening the screws on China, capping an approach that has seen him carry out a difficult juggling act in office to counter the world’s second largest economy.

That effort will be on display this weekend as Biden hosts the Quad Leaders Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, bringing ...Read more