Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t yield the advantage he predicted.

Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, the official exit poll showed. Sinn Fein won 21.1%, while...Read more

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, according to the official exit poll, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t go as planned.

Harris’s Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, according to the poll commissioned by ...Read more

Scott Jennings, who has made waves as a spirited defender of Donald Trump on CNN, has been asked to join the Los Angeles Times editorial board.

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong announced the move in a post on X this week.

“Growing the board with experts who have thoughtful balanced views and new candidates are accepting the challenge to ...Read more

BOSTON — Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case won’t be gaining access to her parents’ phone records that they said could have bolstered their argument that the defendant knew she struck and left John O’Keefe to die in a snowstorm.

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone has denied the prosecution’s request for Verizon to ...Read more

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested he’d accept a ceasefire with Russia that left parts of his country occupied in return for NATO security guarantees over the rest, the strongest signal yet that the Ukrainian leader is open to ending the war without regaining all territory.

Zelenskyy made the comments in an interview with Sky ...Read more

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other.

It’s long been known that multiple species of ancient humans lived in the same hot, lush lakeshore area of East Africa. Yet skeletal remains have made that difficult to prove.

Now, a team of researchers say they have unearthed 1.5 million-year-old ...Read more

Some eight months after revealing her cancer diagnosis, Kate Middleton is poised to take on her busiest royal week of the year so far, marking a sign of significant progress in her ongoing recovery.

The Princess of Wales is scheduled to join Prince William on Tuesday to kick off a two-day state visit from the Emir of Qatar and his wife. The ...Read more

BOSTON — A high-ranking Boston Police official attributed the uptick in violence, open-air drug use and other deviant behavior seen downtown and on Boston Common over the past year to spillover from the longstanding but now defunct Mass and Cass encampment.

Boston Police Deputy Superintendent Dan Humphreys said BPD is already in the middle of...Read more

DETROIT — A University of Michigan tenured professor is suing the Board of Regents for breach of contract, alleging that the university has "systematically" underpaid her and and thousands of other professors because of a failure for years to award raises to them for two months of the year.

In the lawsuit, filed this week in the Court of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Wrapping up a recent radio interview, Gov. Ron DeSantis hinted that Florida may soon loosen its gun laws even further, allowing for the open carrying of firearms in public places.

“You may get that in this upcoming legislative session,” he told the host Bob Rose earlier this month. “Stay tuned on that.”

But open carry...Read more

Backing the blue and promising to be tough on criminals turned out to be a winning message for one Florida judicial candidate, but it also got him suspended by the Florida Supreme Court this week.

John B. Flynn was elected to the Polk County bench in 2022 after promising to “support our law enforcement agencies” and vowing that “criminals...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jamell Demons, the rapper known professionally as YNW Melly, is finally due back in court Dec. 5, but it won’t be to pick up where his murder retrial left off.

For that, the artist who calls himself “Melly the Menace” with a hit track “Murder on My Mind” will have to wait nearly a year, and even that assumes ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has extended its stay of a judge's order to build housing on the VA's West Los Angeles campus, setting an expedited April hearing for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' appeal.

The order issued Monday night ends U.S. District Judge David O. Carter's fervently pursued goal to have as ...Read more

ATLANTA — It’s the most festive time of the year, filled with holiday songs, shopping and traditions.

But for criminals, the holiday season can also offer countless opportunities to prey on innocent people. It’s the season when grinches steal packages, rob shoppers or even break into vehicles, according to law enforcement agencies.

Metro...Read more