BOSTON — Male students in Dover-Sherborn Middle School reportedly doctored disturbing AI-generated nudes of their female classmates in what one official called “child pornography,” according to a letter sent from a school committee member to parents.

“On September 16th, 2024, eleven female DSMS students were informed that a group of ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A drug that gained international attention for its controversial off-label use during the COVID-19 pandemic could soon be available in North Carolina without a prescription.

House Bill 618, titled the “Ivermectin Access Act,” would require the state to issue a standing order by Oct. 1 allowing licensed pharmacists to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The woman killed by an alligator on a Central Florida lake Tuesday was attacked after her canoe passed over it in shallow water, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Wednesday.

The attack occurred near the mouth of Tiger Creek on Lake Kissimmee, just east of Osceola County, where the woman and her ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Shoppers across Missouri could soon be able to pay for their groceries and pay taxes with gold and silver.

Missouri lawmakers this week, in a move that surprised some, approved a controversial bill that would make gold and silver legal tender in the state. The legislation, which passed both chambers of the General ...Read more

A massive search is underway in Texas for a girl who hasn’t been seen in nearly seven years, an effort sparked after her mother was recently arrested for allegedly locking the missing girl’s 7-year-old sister inside a closet for weeks.

Ava Marie Gonzalez, who was never reported missing, was just 2 years old when she seemingly vanished in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Liquor is still allowed at President Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf courses, despite a state law barring felons from serving and profiting from the sale of alcohol.

The state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, or ABC, initially opted against renewing liquor licenses for the Trump National Golf Clubs — in Bedminster and ...Read more

The Yellowstone tour van crash that killed seven people in Idaho was caused by a pickup truck that crossed the center line, police said Tuesday.

A Dodge Ram pickup traveling westbound on U.S. Route 20 entered the oncoming lanes and struck a Mercedes passenger van traveling eastbound toward Yellowstone National Park on May 1, Idaho State Police ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in Springfield on Wednesday to decry Illinois’ policies that limit state and local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

“People are dying every day because of these policies. People are evading justice,” Noem told reporters during a news ...Read more

BOSTON — Mayoral candidate Josh Kraft rolled out a comprehensive plan to revamp the embattled Boston Public Schools, and in doing so unveiled a third major area his campaign sees as a vulnerability for Mayor Michelle Wu.

Kraft released a five-page “plan to provide current and future generations of Boston families the BPS education they ...Read more

CHICAGO — DePaul University’s President Robert Manuel testified before the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Wednesday morning, apologizing for any harm caused to Jewish students, faculty and staff since the terrorist attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

Manuel joined the presidents of Haverford College and California Polytechnic ...Read more

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to reset ties between their nations and join forces to help strengthen the European Union’s defensive capabilities and competitiveness.

“As we face war on our continent, fierce global competition, accelerating climate and technological change, and threats of a...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran says some opponents of his plan to have the department partner with ICE have used "Holocaust-era language" to slander him as the state's only Jewish sheriff.

In a statement shared with The Inquirer this week, as civil-rights groups prepared for a Wednesday news conference to oppose an ICE ...Read more

NEW YORK — “Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Pitt was arrested in Brooklyn last week for alleged sexual abuse and attacks against his ex-girlfriend.

The 44-year-old “Funny Games” actor has pleaded not guilty to all charges after he was arrested Friday night for assault injury with a weapon sexually motivated, strangulation sexually ...Read more

Republican efforts to slash billions in Medicaid funding would be “an attack on rural America,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and three other Democratic governors said this week.

The cuts would strip health care from millions of low-income Americans and cause the closure of dozens of rural hospitals over the next decade, they said on a call ...Read more

President Donald Trump has said his tariffs on countries around the world will bring “jobs and factories roaring back” to the U.S.

Keith Maskus, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is among the economists and business representatives who don’t think that will happen. The sweeping tariffs have been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five Mexican citizens have been charged with participating in human smuggling after a small boat carrying migrants capsized off San Diego on Monday, killing four people including two children, authorities said.

Tragic new details about the deadly smuggling incident came to light Tuesday.

The body of a 14-year-old boy from India...Read more

SACRAMENTO — Sacramento’s Police Department routinely pays more than $15 million in overtime each year — totaling more than $100 million in the last decade — yet elected officials have not committed to an audit of the spending.

While public safety overtime is not new or unique to the capital region, the amount has increased ...Read more

DENVER — In a dramatic 11th hour move, House Democrats late Tuesday night tried to resurrect a dead-and-buried plan to slow Colorado’s first-in-the-nation artificial intelligence regulations from taking effect — a day after a senior Democratic lawmaker killed the planned delay and threw parts of the Capitol into chaos.

But the plan ...Read more

ATLANTA — When living in a dangerous homeless camp in Atlanta‘s Mechanicsville neighborhood, Willie Jeffries said people sometimes let him spend the night in their homes.

Jeffries finally got his own apartment in October, with help from nonprofit organizations that work with the city. After living in the Cooper Street camp for four years, ...Read more