Mexico’s opposition is pledging to block President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s controversial overhaul of the judicial system in the Senate, where the ruling coalition is within a hair of securing a two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution.

Lopez Obrador’s Morena party and its allies are still one vote short of the 86 ...Read more

CHICAGO — A convicted serial killer dubbed the “Hollywood ripper” is appearing in court in Skokie on Friday after authorities long sought to bring him to trial in the 1993 slaying of 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio.

Michael Gargiulo was questioned by police after the Glenview teen was found by her father stabbed to death on the front porch of...Read more

ATLANTA — Colin Gray is the first parent of a mass school shooting suspect to be arrested and charged in Georgia in connection with the crime, prosecutors believe.

The 54-year-old appeared in court Friday charged with multiple counts of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty, accused of knowingly allowing his 14-year...Read more

The brothers of three high ranking officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration have become ensnared in a corruption investigation that prompted federal authorities to execute search warrants on them and several top mayoral advisers this week, according to law enforcement sources and other individuals familiar with the matter.

The two ...Read more

In the moments after he was shot, math teacher Richard Aspinwall was “trying to crawl back to” his students, even as sounds of gunfire continued to echo through the halls of Apalachee High School.

Stephanie Reyna and Bryan Maldonado, both 17 years old, were among the 18 students in Aspinwall’s class when the violence began on Wednesday ...Read more

Georgia Tech is cutting ties with a Chinese university that’s faced increased federal scrutiny over its potential links to the Asian nation’s military.

The school said Friday that it is ending a partnership with Tianjin University after an extensive investigation. The school said the roughly 300 students in the Georgia Tech Shenzhen ...Read more

A long-running effort by native tribes and environmentalists to establish the first new national marine sanctuary along California’s coastline in 32 years — the aquatic version of a new national park — where offshore oil drilling would be prohibited forever, reached a key milestone Friday.

The Biden administration published the final ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — Sheriff’s deputies on Friday led a 14-year-old high school freshman into a Georgia courtroom, where he learned he could face life in prison without parole for allegedly gunning down two of his classmates and two teachers. Shackled and wearing a green jail uniform, Colt Gray nodded silently as the judge explained the proceedings...Read more

NEW YORK — Around an hour after former President Donald Trump appeared in a New York courtroom on Friday to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll, the GOP presidential nominee appeared to defame her once again.

In comments to reporters at a Trump Tower press conference at which he did ...Read more

An outpouring of grief and heartbreaking portraits washed over Winder on Thursday as hints remained elusive about what may have prompted a 14-year-old boy to allegedly open fire inside Apalachee High School, killing four people and injuring nine others.

In the wake of authorities identifying ninth-grader Colt Gray as a suspect in Wednesday’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While Southern California and the Southwest swelter under their most punishing heat wave of the year, international climate officials have confirmed that the summer of 2024 was Earth’s hottest on record.

The global average temperature in June, July and August — known as the boreal summer in the Northern hemisphere — was a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A recent statewide poll found that a majority of likely Marylander voters, about 58%, prefer “strict” juvenile justice laws over “lenient” ones, which secured roughly 34% support.

That majority preference persisted among Democrats, Republicans, white respondents, Black respondents and each age group — and remain largely ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A priest lured 9-year-old David Schappelle into a private area of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg decades ago under the guise of teaching him about confession.

Father Wayland Brown proceeded to masturbate under his “ceremonial robe,” withdraw his hand when he was finished and tell the boy that “God will be ...Read more

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is investigating the death of an American citizen who was shot and killed during a protest in the West Bank, an incident that threatened to further strain ties with Israel.

Blinken declined to answer if the killing might prompt a re-evaluation of the Biden administration’s move to keep sending ...Read more

DENVER — Greenhouse farmers will be able to write off their agricultural equipment from their personal property taxes permanently under a law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.

Passed as House Bill 1003 during the legislature’s special session last month, the law extends in perpetuity an exemption that was set to expire in tax year 2027. ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is going all-in on wind energy.

Amid the fallout of the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts has secured the largest offshore wind energy procurement in state history.

The selected 2,678 megawatts from three projects, announced Friday, is also the largest purchase in New ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two former Central Florida cops with ties to the far-right Proud Boys pleaded guilty Friday for their roles in the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Kevin and Nathaniel Tuck — who are father, 52, and son, 32, and worked for the Windermere and Apopka police departments, respectively — both admitted to entering a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a visit to Shanksville, site of the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The site in Stonycreek Township 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh was where one of the four planes hijacked by Arab terrorists on Sept. 11, 2021...Read more

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy charged with murder after killing a 12-year-old boy in a high-speed crash while off duty has pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Ricardo Castro, 30, was at the wheel of his pickup truck on Nov. 3, 2021, when it rammed a car turning left in front of him at an intersection, ...Read more