Israel is considering a U.S.-led deal to end the conflict in Lebanon and move Hezbollah fighters away from the Israeli border, after assessing the militant group’s rocket arsenal has been mostly expended or destroyed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met top aides late on Tuesday to discuss a fresh proposal, his spokesperson said. The ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The trial of a delivery driver accused of fatally shooting a transgender woman in Bel Air in December began this week in Harford County Circuit Court.

Authorities say Meghan Riley Lewis was shot to death in an apartment complex in the 600 block of Churchill Rd. Dec. 28.

Her killing left Maryland’s LGBTQ+ community reeling, as ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Catholic hospital in Eureka has agreed to provide emergency abortion services after a state lawsuit said it had refused to give abortions to pregnant patients in life-threatening emergencies.

The lawsuit alleges that, in February, Providence St. Joseph Hospital denied a patient emergency care when her water prematurely broke ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore Police officer was stripped of his police powers after he was arrested last week on charges including first-degree assault.

Eli Winston, 29, is suspended without pay while he awaits trial on home detention, a Baltimore Police spokesperson said Wednesday. He was charged last week after police reviewed surveillance ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for Virginia Republicans, clearing the way for an election-eve purge of about 1,600 registered voters who were suspected of being noncitizens.

In a 6-3 vote, the court granted an emergency appeal from Virginia's attorney general and set aside rulings by a federal judge who called the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Latino students now represent more than 25% of UC Davis’ enrollment, positioning the school to qualify as a Hispanic-Serving Institution — a benchmark becoming more common across higher education.

The designation, recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, is given to schools with a student body of at least 25% ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Language for Sacramento to acknowledge its history of systemic racism and racial inequities is moving forward in council chambers.

A draft of an equity resolution passed unanimously by the city’s Racial Equity Committee Tuesday morning, which advances it to the City Council.

If passed, the resolution will establish a ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston College is flat-out refusing to own up to the $4.8 million overdue bill in the city’s volunteer PILOT tax program, saying the institution vigorously guards its “tax-exempt status.”

The Chestnut Hill school instead makes “annual payments for fire protection services” to Boston and Newton and offers “community ...Read more

Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 3, 2024, and most of us will set our clocks back an hour. There is a long-running debate about the benefit of the time change, given how it disrupts humans’ circadian rhythms, causing short-term stress and fatigue.

Another risk accompanying the time change is on the roads: As ...Read more

The number of voters registered as Democrats has tumbled in recent years in Florida, effectively removing the Sunshine State as a battleground and placing it firmly in the red column.

At least that’s the dominant narrative found in many media outlets. And it is true that Republican Donald Trump won the state in both 2016 and 2020....Read more

If you are still undecided and mulling your pick for president, there are clear differences between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris that are important to understand.

The Conversation has published stories from more than a dozen scholars looking at the records of the two ...Read more

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Apparently, lots of people thought Orwell had something relevant to say in that political moment.

Nearly eight years later, the United ...Read more

As TVs across Florida broadcast the all-too-familiar images of a powerful hurricane headed for the coast in early October 2024, people whose homes had been damaged less than two weeks earlier by Hurricane Helene watched anxiously. Hurricane Milton was rapidly intensifying into a dangerous storm, fueled by the Gulf of Mexico’s record-...Read more

As a scholar of religion, I attended the “Courage Tour,” a series of religious-political rallies, when it made a stop in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, from Sept. 27-28, 2024.

From what I observed, the various speakers on the tour used conservative talking points – such as the threat of communism and LGBTQ+ “ideologies” taking ...Read more

Since we spend so much of our lives at our jobs, it’s only natural that conversations with colleagues go beyond the work in front of us. People share interests and hobbies, family struggles, health concerns, and hopes or goals, from the silly to the serious.

The topic of religion, however, can provoke anxiety. Many people might ...Read more

Israel is considering a U.S.-led deal to end the conflict in Lebanon and move Hezbollah fighters away from the Israeli border, after assessing the militant group’s rocket arsenal has been mostly expended or destroyed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met top aides late on Tuesday to discuss a fresh proposal from Washington, his spokesperson...Read more