As high temperatures break records around the U.S. and wildfires rip through the West, another climate-driven weather hazard — extreme rainfall — is pummeling the country’s Northeast, and scientists say it will get worse as the climate changes. That will bring more rain-induced flooding to a region of millions that isn’t prepared.

The ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Police are searching for a suspected Holocaust Memorial vandal.

The Boston Police Department issued stills from surveillance footage of a man they say vandalized the New England Holocaust Memorial around 90 Union St. a little before 9 on Friday night.

The vandalism was to a single glass panel directly facing the Bell in Hand ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden decried a ruling that temporarily blocked a new administration program that would have offered legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, endangering a key policy goal the administration announced in June to balance restrictions earlier this year to speed the deportation of recent ...Read more

Pop star Taylor Swift has yet to endorse a candidate for president this election season, but some of her fans are entering their political era by organizing for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, joined singer-songwriter Carole King and about 15,000 others on a video conference ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado wildlife officials are relocating two reintroduced wolves and their pups after a series of livestock depredations — a setback for the historic and controversial reintroduction program launched late last year.

The pack of wolves, called the Copper Creek pack, will be captured from the wild in Grand County, Colorado Parks ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Billionaire Jared Isaacman’s return trip to space on the Polaris Dawn mission is having to wait a little longer after a launch pad issue forced one delay and now weather has taken the next two launch opportunities off the board.

First a helium leak on the launch pad Monday night forced SpaceX to hold off a planned ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Justice Department is suing an anti-abortion provocateur who barricaded himself inside a restroom at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia three years ago, prompting the evacuation and temporary closure of the facility.

The lawsuit against Matthew Connolly — a 42-year-old activist from Minnesota and a member of...Read more

A California bill designed to prevent mandated high school ethnic studies courses from veering into antisemitism has been delayed a year amid opposition from teacher and university faculty unions and an Islamic civil rights group who call it censorship.

The bill — AB 2918 — was authored by Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur of ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego police officer was killed and a second was seriously injured in a fiery crash following a brief pursuit in Clairemont late Monday, officials said.

The driver of the car police had been chasing also died, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl told reporters at an early morning news conference.

Police did not release the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams dialed back plans for a cell phone ban in New York City public schools, saying it may not happen this school year — just two months after the schools chancellor announced changes were imminent.

“There will be some action in the upcoming school year,” the mayor said at a Tuesday briefing at City Hall. “But ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With Democrats fresh off the enthusiasm of the national convention, the Trump campaign and Republican Party are aiming to steal some of the opposition's thunder by leveling the playing field when it comes to absentee and mail-in ballots in the pivotal battleground state.

The Trump team and Republican National Committee announced ...Read more

The Supreme Judicial Court slashed at a state law banning switchblades, agreeing with a Boston defendant’s argument that such knives are protected by the Second Amendment.

“The Commonwealth contends knives categorically are not protected by the Second Amendment because the definition of arms is limited to firearms. The Commonwealth is ...Read more

BOSTON — A Massachusetts resident has died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis as the region faces an outbreak from the serious disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes.

This death reported in New Hampshire comes after a man in Massachusetts tested positive for EEE, along with a horse and dozens of mosquito samples. As a result, the Bay State ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a "pause" in his nation's relations with the United States and Canadian embassies after the ambassadors from those countries criticized his plan to dramatically overhaul the justice system.

"They have to learn to respect the sovereignty of Mexico," López Obrador told ...Read more

At least 30 travelers from Cuba have brought cases of a potentially deadly virus known as “sloth fever” to Florida this year, including 10 just in the past week.

The virus, also known as Oropouche, is spread to people by infected biting midges (small flies) and some mosquito species. Health officials and mosquito control staff are on high ...Read more

CHICAGO — As temperatures climbed into the mid-90s Tuesday afternoon, Tamala Wilson batted away flies. She sat in the shade under a canopy tent assembled in a patch of grass along Marine Drive, where she had been living for two and a half months after leaving a domestic violence shelter.

She’d stashed some ice in her cooler and filled up ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — For the second day in a row, jurors have failed to reach a verdict in the murder trial of former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, accused of killing Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German.

Just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, District Court spokeswoman Mary Ann Price said the jury has finished ...Read more

The Midwest’s regional electricity grid issued an energy emergency alert for several hours Monday afternoon amid triple-digit temperatures in parts of the region, including in the Kansas City area.

The Southwest Power Pool’s alert was triggered by a narrowing margin between the grid’s electricity supply and customers’ electricity demand...Read more