ATLANTA — Roger Goodell was in Brazil when he learned about the shooting at Apalachee High School.

The NFL commissioner traveled abroad to attend Friday’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. After hearing about the shooting, Goodell was pulled to read everything he could find about Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old ...Read more

Venezuela’s government, whose brutal crackdown on dissent is rattling Latin American allies, threatened to go after opposition campaign workers who have sheltered in the Argentine embassy for months.

Dozens of President Nicolás Maduro’s agents stationed themselves outside the embassy in Caracas on Friday night, though as of Saturday ...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — Morning arrived Saturday like so many others. Slightly cool, a hint of fall under the rays of the golden sun.

People ran errands and met friends for coffee and early lunches. But everywhere in this northeast Georgia community — the marquee outside the movie theater, the Walgreens in downtown, front lawns throughout Barrow ...Read more

Iran would signal a “dramatic escalation” of support for Russia by providing ballistic missiles to aid its war in Ukraine, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said.

Burns and his U.K. counterpart, Richard Moore, warned during a joint appearance in London that military cooperation between the two countries is deepening.

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CHICAGO — A Wisconsin poultry company has issued a recall for eggs sold in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin after they were found to be contaminated with a strain of salmonella that has sickened 65 people.

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Food Safety Alert for the recalled eggs from Milo’s Poultry Farms LLC...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read maintained her innocence in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in a risky interview with ABC’s “20/20” television newsmagazine that aired Friday night.

“I felt like I’d had alcohol, I felt that I had a buzz, but I did not feel it was unsafe to be operating my vehicle,” Read, who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A pair of modest earthquakes rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, with epicenters in Ontario.

The earthquakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other. Shaking was felt as far away as the city of Los Angeles, Orange County and northern San Diego County, according to crowdsourcing ...Read more

As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started hearing calls from the public to ban Arab Americans and Muslims from all flights – and even to round them up and detain them.

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Ukraine’s daring offensive into Russia’s Kursk region impressed Kyiv’s allies with its quick initial success, upending perceptions the war had settled into a stalemate and exposing the hollowness of Vladimir Putin’s vows to defend his territory at all costs.

But a month into the operation, U.S. and European officials still question what...Read more

Back in 2016, it was evident that Russian President Vladimir Putin was Team Trump. Top Kremlin officials cracked open champagne bottles in the early hours of Nov. 9 as the businessman-turned-politician emerged as the surprise victor in the U.S. election.

When it comes to determining where the Russian leader stands today, there is no easy answer...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Colleges were bracing for a decline in Black and Latino freshmen at many of the nation's elite institutions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year to ban race-conscious decisions.

Nationally, so far, that appears to be the case at some schools: Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If a pet dog has a history of biting, does the public have a right to know?

The grand jury in San Diego County considered this question and answered in the affirmative.

In an investigation prompted by a complaint from a dog bite victim who found the official response inadequate, the watchdog group recommended that San Diego ...Read more

Boeing’s Starliner completed its Crew Flight Test without its crew undocking Friday evening from the International Space Station and making the trip back to Earth.

The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V back on June 5 with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams docking with the ISS the next ...Read more

California may enforce its recent ban on guns in “ sensitive places” when it comes to parks and playgrounds, bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, casinos, stadiums, amusement parks, zoos, libraries, museums, athletic facilities and the parking areas associated with them, a federal appellate court ruled Friday.

However, the state may not...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reported in a new financial disclosure that he took no trips in 2023 paid for by another person or organization, but revealed he failed to report a loan and did accept concert tickets from a German socialite.

The federal judiciary released Alito’s report on Friday after he requested an ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two veteran New York City newspaper reporters who cover the New York Police Department were given the boot Thursday from the media trailer at police headquarters dubbed “the Shack.”

Tina Moore, police bureau chief of The New York Post, and Maria Cramer, police bureau chief of The New York Times, were barred from NYPD ...Read more