NEW YORK — “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been released from prison after spending more than a year behind bars for the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Prison records show Gutierrez-Reed was freed from the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility on Friday morning, having served about 13 months of her ...Read more

VATICAN CITY — When 15-year-old Maria Izworska from Poland hears the word Chicago, the first thing that comes to mind is “O Block,” the notoriously high-crime strip of South King Drive that’s been immortalized in rap songs and social media.

“I also think about food,” said the teen, who was sitting on the steps of St. Peter’s ...Read more

CHICAGO — Damien Morris was feeling “a little tense” Wednesday afternoon. It was the first day of a planned six-day sprint to prevent as much violence as possible in East Garfield Park and Morris, chief program officer for violence prevention and social services nonprofit Breakthrough, was staring down a packed calendar.

Memorial Day, the...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As they have for more than 100 years, thousands of visitors will head out to Santa Cruz’s beaches and famous wharf over Memorial Day Weekend, heralding the beginning of summer.

The sea lions, the clam chowder, the sunny weather and surfers all will be there. But this year, visitors also will notice something different. ...Read more

The Trump administration is preparing to issue a narrowly tailored license to Chevron Corp., allowing the oil producer to conduct minimal maintenance of essential operations in Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Treasury Department plans to grant the waiver permitting Chevron to carry out only critical upkeep and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Four years ago, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presided over one of the most significant trials in modern America.

Like the crime itself, the trial was filmed and broadcast. Millions tuned in over six weeks to watch live feed of jury selection, attorney arguments and witness and expert testimony to determine whether Derek ...Read more

European leaders are racing to figure out how to keep Ukraine supplied with weapons as U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be walking away from the war. One option: buy American.

Europe has neither the stocks of arms nor the capacity to make them in large enough volume as it becomes clear that the U.S. won’t be delivering any more. The ...Read more

Investors were growing optimistic that Donald Trump’s trade wars had started to calm down. His latest tariff broadsides quickly disabused them of that notion.

Initial agreements with the U.K. and China buoyed hopes on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms that the U.S. president was starting to peel back the highest U.S. tariffs in nearly ...Read more

Harvard University can continue to enroll international students — for now.

A federal judge’s reprieve on Friday was quickly hailed as a victory for the country’s wealthiest university in its battle with the Trump administration.

But the respite is temporary. The government’s move a day earlier to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Skeletal remains that washed up on several South Jersey beaches starting in 1995 have been identified as a 19th-century ship captain who was commanding a schooner bound for Philadelphia at the time of his death, bringing an end to a three-decade mystery.

The remains were those of 29-year-old Henry Goodsell, who died in the ...Read more

DENVER — As Gov. Jared Polis ponders a bill to increase Colorado’s regulation of the herbal remedy kratom, Dave Bregger said he feels like he’s on “pins and needles.”

The bill on Polis’s desk bears the name of Bregger’s son — Daniel Bregger, a 33-year-old Denver resident who died in 2021 after ingesting kratom and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pamela Bondi during her Senate confirmation bid pitched herself as a leader with a track record of supporting victims, a history some Republican senators pointed to when backing her nomination.

But after her first months in the role, victim service organizations and their supporters say there’s fear and deep ...Read more

ATLANTA — An iPhone with a cartoony, angel-winged teddy bear on its case kept catching the soldier’s eye. The phone was stashed in the closet of a back room in what amounted to a lost-and-found locker at a remote U.S. military outpost in the Jordanian desert.

Staff Sgt. Zachary Winthers of the Illinois Army National Guard had been stationed...Read more

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued with X’s AI software after the bot suggested her claim of being a Christian doesn’t always align with her actions.

The feud began Friday when the far-right wing congresswoman took exception to Grok fact-checking her commitment to her faith by saying her support for conspiracy theories and Christian ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A multifront assault by the Trump administration against the nation’s oldest university intensified on Friday when Harvard sued to block the government from barring international student enrollment, and a judge issued an immediate order to halt the ban.

The rapid-fire legal action is the latest in Trump administration attacks ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of somber faces lined a room of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City Thursday evening to mourn a 26-year-old Johnson County woman and her boyfriend who were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

“It’s one thing to see the images on the news, or hear stories from across...Read more

Boeing Co. has reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that would allow the planemaker to avoid criminal charges for two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets more than six years ago.

The settlement was disclosed in a federal court filing Friday, just weeks before a trial was set to start June 23 in Fort Worth, Texas. It ...Read more