WASHINGTON — Regardless of the outcome of next week’s elections, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will make history in 2025 when the panel for the first time will have a woman as one of its two leaders.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is poised to succeed Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., as either the chair or ranking member of the panel,...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — That National Hurricane Center increased odds a Caribbean system will form while also starting to track to more systems with potential to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean ...Read more

CHICAGO — In June 2018, the day House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff had quit amid a burgeoning sexual harassment scandal, two of Madigan’s top deputies had a frank conversation about trying to save their boss.

“It’s time to get a real PR firm in here…somebody who’s dealt with real (expletive) … like the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A week after the Bureau of Land Management approved Nevada’s third lithium mine, environmentalists and a Western Shoshone group filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency rushed the environmental review process and violated federal laws.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday, is the latest in a long line of ...Read more

As the hours tick down until Richard Moore’s scheduled execution by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday, few options remain for him avoid the state’s death chamber.

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution to examine whether potential Black jurors were wrongly prevented from serving on his jury.

Now his hopes may ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the past two weeks, nearly 850,000 poultry have been killed in the San Joaquin Valley as the highly pathogenic avian influenza tightens its grip on Central California.

It’s the third time HPAI has been detected in a commercial poultry operation since the state was considered HPAI-free in late June. And officials ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — For the second time, an alleged cult leader accused of preying on the Native American community and sexually assaulting women has been indicted by a Clark County grand jury.

Last month, the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the previous indictment against 48-year-old Nathan Chasing Horse, which charged him with counts of sexual ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For roughly one minute, a Florida man unexpectedly rained blows upon an unsuspecting passenger aboard a cross-country flight heading from San Francisco toward Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon, a federal agent alleged.

Blood from the victim, asleep at the time and unprepared for the vicious assault, splashed onto the sleeves...Read more

The ongoing war in Sudan has often been overlooked amid higher-profile conflicts raging across multiple continents. Yet the lack of media and geopolitical attention to this 18-month-long conflict has not made its devastation in terms of human lives any less stark.

Since fighting broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's suit against Elon Musk and his political action committee has been placed on hold while the tech billionaire attempts to move the case to federal court.

Though the parties were scheduled to appear Thursday for an emergency hearing before Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta, ...Read more

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear supports abolishing the Electoral College.

A popular vote system to elect the president of the United States would “be a better form of democracy,” and entice more presidential hopefuls to pay attention to Kentucky, he said at a press conference Thursday when asked to elaborate on previous comments.

“I think it...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump’s threat of “mass deportation” of millions of people is a key vow of his re-election campaign and one that resonates with his supporters.

But the consequences of such a roundup would be sweeping in Florida and elsewhere: Sprawling holding camps for those awaiting deportation. Struggles for ...Read more

Russia has fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, many times more than the world’s entire GDP, for blocking its YouTube accounts.

That figure — a 20 followed by 33 zeroes — is $20 decillion, to the uninitiated who didn’t know such a word existed. Even the Kremlin acknowledged on Thursday that it was more a ...Read more

Dan Bishop is confident that his promise to help law enforcement “restore law and order” will resonate with voters as they head to the polls and choose a new attorney general next week.

Republicans haven’t won a race for attorney general in North Carolina in more than a century, but after the last two elections were decided by razor thin ...Read more

ATLANTA — After nearly a year of painfully slow testimony, a sudden series of plea deals could potentially bring an end to Young Thug’s sprawling gang trial before defense attorneys even get the chance to present their case.

It’s unclear if the Grammy-winning rapper will accept a deal, but intense negotiations with prosecutors have been ...Read more

Mexicans are divided about the need of tighter migration policies, amid a large influx of foreigners crossing their country toward the U.S. border, according to a new poll.

About 41% of respondents want Mexico to take a more restrictive stance on migration, while 40% favor more open policies, according to LatAm Pulse, a survey conducted by ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A parking spot shuffle coming up this weekend more than 250 miles above Earth will mark a unique feat for a pair of NASA astronauts who will become the first to fly in both Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who flew up to the International Space Station in ...Read more