Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinforced his plea for allies to accelerate weapons deliveries to help halt Russian advances as he met with defense ministers in Germany.

“We need to force Russia to seek peace,” Zelenskyy said in his first in-person appearance at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in southwest ...Read more

About three months ago, U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel and Hamas faced a “decisive moment” when he proposed a cease-fire deal to pause their devastating war in Gaza.

His administration, despite repeated setbacks, is still pushing for an agreement and trying to end a deadlock as the war nears the one-year mark.

The U.S. will present ...Read more

The 2024 outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis – known as triple E or EEE – has caused six reported and confirmed human disease cases in five states, including one death, as of Sept. 4, 2024.

EEE surfaces nearly every year in the U.S., but with another outbreak of West Nile virus also spreading across the country, health ...Read more

Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church leaders took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times titled “Black Power.” Their densely worded statement called on national leaders, “white churchmen,” Black citizens and the mass media to correct the country’s racial power imbalance. In essence, they ...Read more

Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an abortion. Fourteen states ban abortions in almost all circumstances, and another eight in almost all cases after 6 to 18 weeks of pregnancy.

Nonetheless, the number of abortions ...Read more

The public furor continues over Donald Trump’s behavior during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 26, 2024.

Since that visit to the U.S. military burial ground outside Washington, D.C., news reports and campaign photos have emerged showing the former president grinning widely and giving a “thumbs-up” gesture while ...Read more

When Barack Obama was elected president, the people of Moneygall in Ireland celebrated. Birthplace of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather on his white mother’s side, the village commemorated the victory – and a later visit from the 44th president – with pints of Guinness and a kitschy trade in “O'Bama” memorabilia.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In response to growing worries about crime in California, the Democratic-controlled Legislature has passed a set of stringent crime bills, marking a significant change in its approach to criminal justice reform compared with previous years.

Democrats who have recently made a consistent push to reduce prison populations by...Read more

WASHINGTON — State and federal health agencies are gearing up to respond to a new strain of mpox — the virus formerly known as monkeypox — if the new strain spreads to the United States.

But this time, they are doing so with fewer resources.

Both an mpox public health emergency declaration and federal pandemic preparedness law were still...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Lottery did not recall compromised Scratchers tickets and failed to follow security testing procedures of some tickets, an audit from the State Controller’s Office has found.

A lottery division found in 2017 that six Scratchers games “catastrophically failed routine internal security tests,” according...Read more

SACRAMENTO — Eight-foot sunflower stalks tower over tracts overrun with weeds. A wooden post marks a habitat for ground-nesting native bees. Near one garden entrance, a tree’s branches droop to the ground, laden with ripe yellow peaches.

Here, in the River District, at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers, large green ...Read more

The Oakland County, Michigan, Board of Commissioners approved $500,000 on Thursday for an independent review of the emergency response to the 2021 Oxford High School attack.

The board unanimously approved the funds and a resolution calling for an after-action review of the mass school shooting that killed four students and injured seven others,...Read more

ATLANTA — More than a year before Colt Gray allegedly shot and killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School, local investigators questioned the boy about a disturbing tip they’d received from the FBI.

Tipsters had seen someone on the online messaging platform Discord talking about plans to shoot up a school, and alerted the...Read more

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told rallygoers in Arizona on Thursday that school shootings are a “fact of life” and that officials need to bolster security to prevent violence like the deadly rampage this week at a northeast Georgia high school.

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared ...Read more