KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Twenty-four minutes before the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade in February left one person dead and at least 24 people injured, Jenipher Cabrera felt a bullet pierce the back of her right thigh.

The 20-year-old and her family were just four blocks from Union Station, in a river of red-...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Riley Rackliffe follows the stinky green blobs as they travel across Lake Mohave.

The aquatic biologist leads a two-man team for the National Park Service, dipping a long stick into the reservoir’s problem areas and sending off samples to the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s water testing plant in Henderson.

Algae can be ...Read more

Mosquito-borne illnesses are a growing concern in Northeastern states, with health officials monitoring cases and advising residents to avoid outdoor activities near standing water and other environments prone to mosquito spread.

Of particular concern is eastern equine encephalitis, a rare disease that can lead to serious and fatal illness, ...Read more

U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, an ally-turned-adversary of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has died, Turkey’s government said. He was 83.

“The death has been confirmed by our intelligence sources,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told reporters in Ankara on Monday.

Gulen was accused of masterminding a failed coup attempt against...Read more

Following the ban of a substitute teacher after he allegedly reenacted the murder of George Floyd in front of students at Woodbury High School, some community activists are calling for more rigorous vetting and training for educators.

According to a letter sent to students, staff and families by South Washington County School District officials...Read more

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia will buy U.S. missiles at a cost of $4.7 billion to boost its long-range strike capabilities, with Defense Industry Minister Pat Conroy warning of “the greatest arms race” in the region since 1945.

Conroy announced the purchase of the Standard Missile Block IIIC and Standard Missile-6 during a visit to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Prosecutors in the trial of suitcase killer Sarah Boone offered jurors what may be the strongest piece of evidence they have – given to them courtesy of Boone herself.

A video police retrieved from Boone’s cellphone shows her taunting her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., as he begs to be let out of the suitcase where he later ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dozens of City University of New York faculty and staff were arrested Monday during a protest near Columbus Circle to demand a new union contract with higher pay.

The rabble-rousers — including Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY) union president James Davis, an English professor at Brooklyn College — blocked the 10th Avenue ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After two years of litigation and courtroom wrangling, a Cole County judge is set to make a decision on a Republican-led “voter integrity” law that requires a government-issued photo ID to cast a vote.

The outcome of the case, which also focuses on GOP efforts to restrict voter registration and absentee voter ...Read more

SEATTLE — Five people, including three youths, were fatally shot near the Lake Alice public boat launch site in the Fall City area Monday morning, according to law enforcement officials.

A sixth victim, a teenager, was injured and hospitalized with injuries to at least two parts of their body, King County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Mellis said ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY — Beginning Tuesday, Missouri voters will be able to cast absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 election without citing an excuse.

Missouri has long offered absentee voting prior to elections, but voters have had to cite an excuse such as being absent from their home jurisdiction on Election Day.

A change to state law in 2022 ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took off Monday for his 11th visit to the Mideast in his so-far unsuccessful effort to engineer a cease-fire between Israel and Iran-backed militants since the attack on Israel more than a year ago.

With Blinken planning stops in Israel and “other countries in the Mideast,” according to the State ...Read more

A Peruvian judge has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 1/2 years in prison for having received an eight-figure bribe tied to the construction of a highway project.

The sentence is a key milestone for Peru, its first presidential conviction after launching a corruption crackdown last decade in the wake of a sprawling graft ...Read more

DETROIT — Members of the Clinton County Republican Party discussed a plan to submit inconsistent signatures with absentee ballots in order "to test" Michigan's voting verification process, according to a Saturday newsletter from the organization.

Ultimately, the Clinton County GOP decided not to go forward with the idea because of concerns ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly a dozen University of Minnesota students were arrested Monday night after barricading Morrill Hall, which holds the Twin Cities campus’ administrative offices, to push the U to divest from companies with ties to Israel.

Several hundred pro-Palestine protesters gathered at the Minneapolis building as Students for a ...Read more

Two Navy crew members who died in an aircraft crash near Mount Rainier in Washington last week have been identified as female aviators from California, including one who participated in the first all-female pregame flyover at last year's Super Bowl.

Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman, both 31, were the only aviators ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — On the first day of early voting for the presidential election, the line was so long in Greenwich that Gov. Ned Lamont gave up and said he would return on another day.

A huge crowd showed up to vote Monday morning at Greenwich Town Hall, where voters said that the estimated wait was at least 30 minutes.

After shaking hands ...Read more

NEW YORK — Reporter Olivia Nuzzi and New York Magazine “agreed ... to part ways” following the revelation of Nuzzi’s undisclosed relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the magazine announced Monday.

The magazine said the decision was reached following an independent review by the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine of Nuzzi’s 2024 ...Read more

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s examiners will step up scrutiny of financial firms’ use of artificial intelligence next year, the latest sign of regulators’ growing concerns about the emerging technologies.

Investment advisers, brokers, clearing agencies and others can expect the SEC to focus on their statements about AI ...Read more