ORLANDO, Fla. — A developing system in the Atlantic could make its way to the Caribbean as the season’s next tropical depression or storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook Tuesday, the forecast calls for an area of low pressure to form in the central tropical Atlantic in a few days. It ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Cobb County Board of Commissioners plans to vote Tuesday on whether to accept the latest court ruling deeming its electoral map unconstitutional — a vote that could end its yearslong fight over local redistricting power.

But the process to revert to the state legislative drawn map, abandoning a map drawn by the county, and to ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — More than 11 years after a 4-year-old boy was found dead in a Coral Springs apartment, his mother has been arrested and accused of his murder.

Destene Simmons, 34, was booked Friday into the North Broward Bureau on one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated child abuse in her son Antwan Hope Jr.’s ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Whether or not the replacement Francis Scott Key Bridge will be fully federally funded — or if the state of Maryland will need to chip in 10% of it — remains to be seen, but one sizable payment that will cover a portion of the rebuild has already landed. The Maryland Transportation Authority received a $350 million insurance ...Read more

The ACLU of Maryland is calling for safeguards to be incorporated in a statewide policy governing the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, saying that police use poses “significant risks” to the public.

The technology, a tool used to identify people through artificial intelligence, has led to false matches and wrongful ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will discuss a plan to end Russia’s invasion of his country during his trip to the U.S. next month.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said he plans to meet Joe Biden as he travels to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September. He also ...Read more

The FDA has approved an updated COVID shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest COVID outbreak sweeping the country, or hold it in reserve for the winter wave?

The new vaccine should provide some protection to everyone. But many healthy people who have already been...Read more

Years of litigation now comes down to a brutal choice: to make room for shelter and housing to get thousands of veterans off the streets, should a judge tear up the lease that allows UCLA to operate its Jackie Robinson baseball stadium on veteran land? And the sports complex of an exclusive private school in Brentwood? Or a Los Angeles city park...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A San Bernardino County man has been sentenced to life in prison a little over a year after he set two people on fire in a pickup truck in Johnson Valley, a small community in the high desert.

Joshua Kaiser was convicted of attempted murder, arson and domestic violence in the wake of the vicious attack on his ex-girlfriend — ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The body of a woman found floating in the Dominguez Channel in Carson last month has been identified as that of a missing 60-year-old grandmother, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Los Angeles County medical examiner identified the woman as 60-year-old Prisciliana Rose Douglas of Los Angeles.

Douglas' body was...Read more

Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist activist, begins her book “The Jewish Wedding Now” with a simple statement: “According to Jewish law, the requirements for a kosher wedding can be summed up in a few words: a bride accepts an object worth more than a dime from a groom; the groom recites a ritual formula to ...Read more

Over the past four years, Congress and state governments have worked hard to prevent the aftermath of the 2024 election from descending into the chaos and threats to democracy that occurred around the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

A new federal law cleaned up ambiguities that could allow for election subversion. New state laws have...Read more

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed his intention, if elected to a second term, to use the U.S. armed forces to suppress domestic protests. The New York Times reports that Trump’s allies are marshaling legal arguments to justify using National Guard or active-duty military troops for crowd control.

Moreover,...Read more

It was midday on a Saturday, and Simonetta led me from the open front door of her home in southeast Chicago to her sitting room and settled next to her husband, Christopher, on the couch.

In the 1980s, Christopher had worked a few blocks away at U.S. Steel South Works, earning three times the minimum wage with a high school diploma �...Read more

The town of Kelseyville bills itself as one of Northern California’s best-kept secrets — an idyllic wine country community that overlooks the state’s largest freshwater lake, as well as a 4,305-foot volcano that is blanketed in greenery.

But a dispute has erupted over a proposal to change the town’s name because of the history it evokes...Read more