AUSTIN, Texas — Four days after residents of coastal Houston celebrated the Fourth of July with the traditional parades, backyard barbecues and fireworks, Beryl came calling.

The Category 1 hurricane, weakened from an earlier Category 5, slammed into Texas’ largest city on July 8 — an unusual midsummer arrival. Delivering one of the worst...Read more

As a wave of gene therapies with multimillion-dollar price tags hit the market, many employers are dropping coverage and leaving families in a bind.

For Amanda Reed, the blows came one after another, a gut-punch introduction to motherhood.

Newborn screening this spring revealed her twin boys had a rare inherited condition called spinal ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A manhunt remains underway Saturday night for a man considered armed and dangerous after five people were shot along Interstate 75 in Southern Kentucky, said Laurel County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Gilbert Acciardo.

No fatalities had been reported as of 11 p.m.

Acciardo said the circumstances of the shooting were still under...Read more

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Italian leader Giorgia Meloni agreed to work toward a conference in Italy next year focused on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, even as a cease-fire with Russia remains elusive.

“We talked about cooperation and preparation for a conference in 2025,” Zelenskyy said in Cernobbio, Italy, after meeting ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said “numerous” people were shot near Interstate 75 Saturday night.

“I-75 is closed at mile marker/Exit 49, and U.S. 25, nine miles north of London due to an active shooter situation,” the agency said in a Facebook post just before 7 p.m.

The suspect was still at large as of about...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

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the chances a tropical wave moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. forecast, the system was over the Bay of Campeche with disorganized showers and thunderstorms but expected to interact with...Read more

Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed his Conservative predecessors for leaving England’s health service in a “broken” state, in his latest effort to frame the political narrative ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult budget proposal next month.

Successive Tory-led governments dealt “unforgiveable” damage to the National Health ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A man suspected of firing multiple rounds in an apartment building is in critical but stable condition after Minneapolis authorities shot him, according to police.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said an officer shot the man in the jaw after reports of a shooting on the 4000 block of Minnehaha Avenue. That officer, and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former employee of a Pasadena businessman whose company made billions of dollars selling COVID-19 tests was ordered Friday to stand trial, along with two alleged accomplices, for attempting to extort $20 million from him by threatening to post sex tapes online.

Sunny Xiaolei Sun, 41, a former employee of Pasaca Capital, and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the land continues to shift under neighborhoods near the oceanside cliffs of Rancho Palos Verdes, an additional 54 homes will have their power cut off.

The announcement from Southern California Edison came as around 170 other homes in the area were already without power, some indefinitely. That includes about 140 homes in the...Read more

[Editor’s note: This article is based on the reporting of more than 20 Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalists].

WINDOR, Ga. — This time it happened on a campus here.

On Georgia soil.

On the 23rd day of the school year at Apalachee High.

On the southwest side of the city of Winder — 37.1 miles east-northeast across Stone Mountain from...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The record-breaking heat wave pummeling Southern California will continue through the weekend, delivering a miserable combination of triple-digit highs and unrelenting overnight heat.

The National Weather Service in Oxnard said Saturday morning that “dangerously hot conditions” will continue in the region through Monday. On ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 4-year-old girl was fatally mauled this week by a dog in Visalia, authorities said.

Officers responded shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2300 block of West Monte Vista Avenue in the San Joaquin Valley city midway between Bakersfield and Fresno, authorities wrote in a statement on Facebook.

The child had finished...Read more

ATLANTA — A coalition of Republican officials that includes Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wants to substantially weaken a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act — a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement.

For decades groups and advocates have filed lawsuits to enforce Section 2 of the act, which prohibits racial ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump pledged on Saturday to make it too costly for countries to shift away from using the U.S. dollar, adding a new pillar to his tariff platform.

“You leave the dollar and you’re not doing business with the United States because we are going to put a 100% tariff on your goods,” the Republican presidential nominee ...Read more

CHICAGO — After possible bullet holes were discovered at the Muslim Community Center this week, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Saturday that they are calling upon police to investigate the incident as a potential hate crime.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote in their news release that ...Read more