One of several civil lawsuits filed in New York claiming that two brothers considered titans in the luxury real estate industry raped a woman as a third brother watched, was tossed by a federal judge Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York ruled the rape accusation by Angelica Parker against two of ...Read more

Florida International University may be on the list for what could be President Donald Trump’s most high-profile real estate deal: his presidential library.

Trump’s local real estate lobbyist recently toured the state school’s main campus in the Miami suburbs as part of an early effort to scout potential library sites. And multiple ...Read more

BOSTON — The three inmates accused of ambushing correction officers in a “vicious attack,” including stabbing one guard 12 times, faced a “sea of blue” of officers during their arraignment on Thursday.

That “sea of blue” of 50 officers from the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union featured the injured officers from ...Read more

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

Students from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, led by ecology professor Brian Pickles, traveled to Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta for a field course in July 2023, according to a Jan. 23 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California is facing another day of dangerous winds and dry conditions that sparked new blazes across the region in a month marked by unprecedented fire losses.

In the last day, hundreds of weary firefighters battled a massive conflagration near Castaic and a smaller but unnerving fire in the Sepulveda Pass in Brentwood...Read more

Amanda Knox’s notorious legal saga has finally come to an end, nearly 20 years after she was arrested and jailed for the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, during a study abroad program in Italy.

Italy’s top court on Thursday upheld Knox’s slander conviction, brought against her after she wrongfully told authorities Congolese ...Read more

The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being.

Under the secretary’s leadership, the multiple agencies that constitute HHS oversee the financing of Medicare and Medicaid, conduct research to improve ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's executive order rejecting liberal "gender ideology" and restoring the "biological truth" of two sexes sets the stage for a legal battle in blue states over transgender students and adults.

Trump says his administration will only recognize "two sexes, male and female" in federal policy, and not "gender ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate’s Veterans Affairs Committee voted overwhelmingly to make Doug Collins the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. The vote moves the former Georgia congressman toward a confirmation vote on the Senate floor, which could occur in a matter of days.

Both the Republican chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee and its ...Read more

CHICAGO — Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd’s legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over backwards to make the then-powerful House speaker happy, showering his cronies with do-nothing contracts, giving special treatment to 13th Ward internship applicants, and putting a Madigan-recommended candidate on...Read more

BANGKOK — On the fifth floor of a large Bangkok mall, gay newlyweds milled about on a long rainbow carpet, posing for photographs while other couples still waiting to marry lined up to submit the required documents.

"Today is a milestone for the success of gender equality in Thailand," declared Permsup Saiaung, who had come with her partner ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House approved bills Thursday that would retain the state's tipped wage for restaurant workers and limit the reach of paid sick leave laws that are set to take effect on Feb. 21.

The tipped wage bill was approved in a 63-41 vote, while the paid sick leave bill passed 67-38, getting support from a few Democrats. ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.

Ilan and his six crewmates flying on STS-107 never made it home.

Now 22 years later, Tal was back in Florida, this time under gloomy skies ...Read more

Even as their son fled from his eastern Altadena condo in the early evening of Jan. 7 — not long after the Eaton fire ignited— Justin Chapman’s parents remained in their family home about a half-mile away.

Their neighborhood just west of North Lake Avenue had yet to receive any evacuation alerts, Chapman said, so his parents felt safe at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday temporarily blocked, nationwide, President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, the first legal roadblock in a flurry of high-profile initiatives in his first days back in the White House.

The ruling came after a hearing in a challenge from Washington...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A hiker was shot and robbed Wednesday by “suspected cartel members” while hiking with a group near the boundary of San Diego and Imperial counties near the U.S.-Mexico border, the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector said on social media.

On the sector’s Facebook page, officials said: “A group of U.S. citizens hiking in the ...Read more