A line of dangerous storms and flooding rains rolled over the US Gulf Coast, killing at least four people and leaving more than 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — without power while grounding hundreds of flights.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire called on businesses in the energy hub to tell non-essential workers to stay home...Read more

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatian lawmakers approved a coalition government that gives Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic a third term after he made a deal to include a right-wing nationalist party known for anti-immigration rhetoric.

The tilt to the right for the Balkan nation comes a month after Plenkovic suffered an electoral setback that gave him ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without resorting to fraud.

But, if he’s wrong, he also has backup plans to cling on to power, according to people who are in contact with the administration, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive political strategy....Read more

SpaceX lined up and knocked out another Starlink launch from the Space Coast on Friday night using a first-stage booster for a fleet-leading 21st time.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-59 mission carrying 23 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:32 p.m. Eastern time.

This ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered enough signatures.

Advocates for the measure turned in 159,930 valid signatures last month — more than enough to place the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The parents of the baby at the center of a child welfare case that prompted protests at hospitals led by far-right activist Ammon Bundy have filed a lawsuit naming St. Luke’s Health System, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the city of Meridian and several individuals.

The lawsuit was filed March 27 by Marissa and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The president of Sonoma State University has retired from his role after being placed on leave for issuing a controversial campus-wide message on the Israel-Hamas war.

California State University chancellor Mildred Garcia said in a statement Thursday that President Ming Tung "Mike" Lee informed her of his decision to retire. ...Read more

DENVER — The University of Colorado Denver will move to remote classes and work “until further notice” because of the ongoing anti-war encampment on the Auraria Campus, university officials said in a message Friday to students, faculty and staff.

CU Denver and “our Auraria Campus partners” will move online, all Auraria campus events ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Representatives of the University of California, Los Angeles academic senate have voted against censuring or making a “no confidence” statement against UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, rejecting a call to issue a formal disapproval of his leadership amid criticism over the university’s response to a violent mob attack at pro-...Read more

Even after the University of California, Berkeley officials struck a deal with student leaders of the university's long-standing pro-Palestinian encampment, a group of protesters took over an abandoned building on campus Wednesday, and some were later arrested.

The protesters occupied Anna Head Alumnae Hall, a condemned building on campus that ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The nationwide collegiate discord with the ongoing war in Israel came to Baltimore Friday when a group of University of Maryland, Baltimore social work students waved Palestine flags and held “ceasefire now” signs during Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin’s keynote graduation speech.

Cardin, D-Md., gave a 15-minute speech for UMB’s ...Read more

Those who want to see wolverines reintroduced to California were dealt a setback this week.

Proposed legislation to explore what it would take to reintroduce the rugged and elusive apex predator to the state’s high mountains died Thursday at the state Capitol.

A similar effort in Colorado, however, is moving forward.

Wolverines vanished ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers are considering several measures aimed at addressing the opioid overdose crisis and putting a greater emphasis on harm reduction, though some of the more controversial proposals with that approach have stalled.

With one week left in the legislature’s scheduled spring session, at least three bills addressing the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As a couple men responsible for more than two dozen federally subsidized food aid sites in Minnesota mused how to manage the government money coming their way, one preached patience.

"In 7 months if things stay the same you are a multimillionaire with 0 debt," Abdiaziz Farah texted his business parter in July 2021. "Now it's ...Read more

NASA and Boeing need more time to make sure a helium leak on its CST-100 Starliner is low enough risk to send humans into space.

So the launch of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams has now been pushed to May 25 targeting a 3:09 p.m. liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Fish and Game Commission voted this week to ban salmon fishing in the Sacramento, American, Feather and Mokelumne rivers.

This is the second consecutive year the commission has voted to ban in-river salmon sport fishing in the Klamath River Basin and Central Valley rivers, according to a news release from ...Read more

The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz will go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations, potentially dealing a blow to campus operations at a critical time during the final weeks of the spring quarter.

The decision to target ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore detention facility was without running water and functioning toilets for days this week, according to the Office of the Public Defender, which alleges the conditions were unconstitutional.

While the water was out at the Maryland Reception Diagnostic and Classification Center in Baltimore, people were unable to clean ...Read more