PHILADELPHIA — Four students involved in pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Pennsylvania have been suspended for their actions, a student group said.

Two students were suspended for one semester, and two for a full year. Two graduate students and two undergraduates received the discipline, which has not yet gone into effect and can...Read more

WASHINGTON — A former member of the Philadelphia Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol along with top leaders of the militant, far-right organization was sentenced to 100 days behind bars Tuesday — far less than what prosecutors had sought.

Brian Healion, 34, of Drexel Hill, apologized for his actions during the unprecedented riot, which ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pro-Palestinian teachers are pushing the nation's largest teachers' union to support boycott efforts of Israel and rescind its endorsement of President Joe Biden over his role in the war in Gaza. Their campaign is expected to meet with protest Wednesday in Philadelphia, where the National Education Association is meeting.

As ...Read more

DETROIT — Prosecutors and a defense attorney for a Detroit man on trial for murdering Jewish leader Samantha Woll argued Wednesday morning about the admissibility of testimony from a forensic pathologist who said Woll’s autopsy was incomplete and that the pattern of her injuries suggested “emotionally charged circumstances.”

Brian ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Board of Public Works approved a $50.3 million no-bid contract Wednesday to clean up and remove debris from the Patapsco River following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

“While we are very, very proud that the work at the Port of Baltimore has now commenced, and there’s traffic and our workers are ...Read more

Israel’s military killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike after targeting his vehicle in south Lebanon, potentially adding to already simmering tensions.

The head of the militant group’s Aziz unit, a regional division in the southern sector, was hit while traveling in the Hosh area in Tyre, Al-Jadeed television said Wednesday. ...Read more

MIAMI — No one likes mosquito season. And some of these bloodsuckers can be more than just a nuisance. Mosquitoes can transmit disease.

Health officials are now focusing on dengue fever, with reports on the rise and new cases confirmed in the Florida Keys. Over 250 cases have been reported in the state so far this year, more than double this ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin trumpeted Russia’s “fully-fledged partnership” with China as he met Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the second time in less than two months, highlighting Moscow’s deepening embrace of Beijing.

Russo-Chinese ties “are at their best in history,” Putin said at a meeting on the sidelines of a security summit ...Read more

As Hurricane Beryl bore down on Jamaica on Wednesday, the islands in its wake were getting a clearer picture of the destruction the record-setting storm left behind in the southeastern Caribbean.

“It is almost Armageddon-like, almost total damage or destruction of all buildings whether they be public buildings, homes or other private ...Read more

A 10-year-old boy died after hiking an Arizona mountain with his family during triple-digit temperatures, police said.

Firefighters responded at about 2 p.m. July 2 to the South Mountain Park and Preserve, the Phoenix Fire Department said in a news release.

They found the boy 1 mile up the trail, where he was having a heat-related emergency, ...Read more

MIAMI— Earliest Category 5 in the Atlantic. Earliest Category 4. Strongest June hurricane. Easternmost June hurricane. First system to undergo rapid intensification in the Atlantic in June. All fresh rewrites of a hurricane record book began in 1851.

Beryl, only the second named storm of 2024, is an eye-opening start to what forecasters had ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Samuel Woodward decided to kill a gay high school classmate in January 2018, according to a prosecutor, he chose a weapon with symbolic significance: a knife with his father's name etched on it.

During his murder trial in Orange County Superior Court, both sides portrayed the 26-year-old Woodward as a young man who ...Read more

SEATTLE — It is time, federal wildlife managers have decided, to kill invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest that threaten native spotted owls with extinction.

The barred owl, ransacking forests and pushing deeper into fragile habitats, is outcompeting the spotted owl. It's bigger, more aggressive, and eats anything in the spotted owl'...Read more

SACRAMENTO — The gun rights group Firearms Policy Coalition on Wednesday announced that it is suing to block California’s new 11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition from being enforced.

The lawsuit, filed in San Diego County Superior Court, contends that the tax is a violation of the Second Amendment.

“California’s unconstitutional ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts spending on the emergency shelter system housing migrant families and local residents has crossed the $700 million threshold, according to data released Monday.

Government budget writers have projected the state will shell out approximately $932 million on the emergency shelter system in fiscal year 2024 and another $...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Donald Trump should come forward with his plan to quickly end the war with Russia, warning that any proposal must avoid violating the nation’s sovereignty.

“If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskyy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday....Read more

LAS VEGAS — Keep fans and cold refreshments handy. Pray the air conditioner doesn’t conk out and the electricity stays on.

Las Vegas Valley residents and visitors appear to be in for the hottest stretch of weather in the city’s history — a mark reached less than a year ago.

“There is certainly the potential of at least 10 consecutive...Read more

DENVER — Outside groups spent roughly $5 million to influence several Democratic legislative primaries last month, an eye-popping sum revealed in final disclosures this week that was part of a broader struggle for influence over the state’s dominant political party.

Beyond the outside money, the candidates spent more than $1.8 million in ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Donald Trump should come forward with his plan to quickly end the war with Russia, warning that any proposal must avoid violating the nation’s sovereignty.

“If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskyy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday....Read more