Panama President Jose Raul Mulino rallied support from former presidents in defense of the country’s canal following threats from Donald Trump to reimpose U.S. control over the waterway.

Mulino met with three Panamanian leaders on Monday, who all signed a statement asserting the country’s independence and autonomy over the canal.

“As ...Read more

Forest researchers in north-central Minnesota are bringing the little-analyzed world of an elusive night creature into the light.

There is a dearth of state research about flying squirrels, a diminutive, rarely seen critter with outsized skills. Minnesota has two species of the little aerialists, a southern and a northern, and where they meet ...Read more

Last week, the Biden administration approved its overarching plan for how to run California’s systems of pumps, canals and reservoirs that serves millions of people and much of the state’s farmland.

The Bureau of Reclamation’s decision Friday ended a four-year effort to overturn the Trump administration’s previous 2019 rules for the ...Read more

Incoming Gov. Josh Stein and Gov. Roy Cooper sought to expand a lawsuit on Monday to challenge a new wide-ranging law passed by the GOP-led legislature earlier this month that removes power from incoming Democratic officeholders.

Cooper and Stein had already filed a separate lawsuit earlier this month over the wide-ranging bill known as Senate ...Read more

President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, including three North Carolina inmates sentenced for violent killings.

Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette, Richard Allen Jackson and Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umaña will all remain in prison for life without the possibility of parole after Biden commuted the sentences of ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state had secured millions in additional funds to address the ongoing Tijuana River sewage crisis that has polluted the coast in San Diego County.

The governor said President Biden had signed a federal funding bill allocating $250 million to repair and expand an exiting wastewater treatment plant in ...Read more

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to new research.

The marine animals, a type of baleen whale found in the southern hemisphere, have the gift of “extreme longevity,” according to a study published on Dec. 20 in the journal Science Advances and an ...Read more

A New England man who was on death row after he “senselessly killed” and was indicted for sending bomb threats to the home of former President George H. W. Bush is on President Biden’s federal death row commutation list.

While 53-year-old Maine man Charles Hall is on the commutation list, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was left ...Read more

Some infectious diseases saw a huge surge in 2024, with the spread attributed in part to climate change, declining vaccination rates and the advent of new pathogen variants.

The findings, part of a preliminary analysis by London-based disease forecasting firm Airfinity Ltd., seek to renew the focus on the rise of preventable and climate-...Read more

Aurora investigators said 11 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members and associates will face multiple felony charges in Colorado court after a couple living in the Edge of Lowry apartments was kidnapped and tortured last week.

Eight suspects are in custody and in the process of being charged while three are still on the run, Aurora police Chief ...Read more

A hunter took trophy photos with a mountain lion he shot in Missouri, but was then cited for killing the protected cat, officials said.

While hunting in Iron County on Nov. 16, the man saw a mountain lion pass under a tree stand he was on, according to court documents.

“He got excited at what it was, stood up, and then decided to shoot (the ...Read more

Alaska's U.S. senators voted in favor of a bill that is set to increase Social Security benefits for thousands of the state's residents.

The measure, known as the Social Security Fairness Act, passed the Senate in a 76-20 vote early Saturday and heads now to the desk of President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it.

The bill is set to ...Read more

President Joe Biden's commutations Monday of federal prisoners sitting on death row included a Michigan man convicted of killing a woman he was accused of sexual assaulting and suspected in the deaths of at least three others.

Prosecutors said Marvin Charles Gabrion II killed Rachel Timmerman to prevent her from testifying against him .

Having...Read more

Thirty years ago, a New Orleans officer offered protection to an accused drug dealer in exchange for a deadly favor: killing a woman who filed a police brutality complaint against him, court documents say.

At Len Davis’ request, the man shot Kim Marie Groves in the head, killing her in a New Orleans neighborhood the evening of Oct. 13, 1994, ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Charlotte native Bo Hines, a former college football player and Republican congressional candidate from North Carolina, to a national leadership role on cryptocurrency.

On Sunday, Trump announced a slate of technology appointments, including that of Bo Hines, who will work alongside “White House A.I....Read more

WASHINGTON — As billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk praised Donald Trump at an October rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and awarded a $1 million check at a town hall in McKees Rocks later that month, he also helped former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick oust long-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Casey.

That's according to U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a billionaire with Las Vegas ties as the next United States ambassador to Italy, according to a Saturday announcement.

Tilman Fertitta, 67, is the chairman, chief executive officer and owner of Landry’s Inc., the Houston-based hospitality and entertainment company which operates three Golden Nugget ...Read more

Tis the season to wash your hands and watch what you eat.

Norovirus, a vomit- and diarrhea-inducing stomach bug, is sickening Floridians through tainted surfaces and contaminated shellfish.

The Sunshine State is one of 12 in the U.S. with a high number of confirmed outbreaks of the virus. Anyone suffering from a bout of the nasty, extremely ...Read more