WASHINGTON — A U.S. senator is elevating an interfaith plea from a rabbi and a Muslim physician in Michigan to the very top of the State Department: Please help us to get life-saving baby formula into Gaza.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump's envoy to...Read more

BALTIMORE — A contingent of state and federal officials watched as remnants of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge were disassembled on Wednesday morning.

“I know I speak for everybody here that seeing it from this perspective is breathtaking,” Gov. Wes Moore said at the bridge’s southern causeway on Hawkins Point.

Moore said he and...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Frengel Reyes says he’ll never forget the screams in the dark, the cold bunk bed without blankets, the brutality enforced by the guards.

“Hell is real back there,” Reyes, 25, said about the four months he spent in a mega-prison in El Salvador after he was deported in March from the United States.

“I asked myself the ...Read more

MIAMI — In press conferences and on TV, top Florida officials have repeatedly said that everyone detained at Alligator Alcatraz has been ordered by a judge to be removed from the country.

“Everybody in this facility is on a final removal order,” Kevin Guthrie, the head of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which oversees ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday pared down an attempt to convert a wide swath of the State Board of Elections nonpartisan civil service staff into political appointees — advancing an amended elections bill that still includes significant changes to voter ID, ballot counting deadlines, ranked choice voting and more.

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WASHINGTON — Texas state Republicans on Wednesday released a new draft congressional map which makes significant changes to districts held by Democrats across the state.

The Lone Star State’s House delegation currently comprises 25 Republicans and 12 Democrats, with one vacancy following the March death of Democrat Sylvester Turner. ...Read more

Shane Tamura’s supervisor at Horseshoe Las Vegas helped him purchase a key part of the weapon he used to kill four people in Manhattan before turning the gun on himself, according to a report from the New York Post.

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 27-year-old Las Vegas resident used an AR-15 style semiautomatic ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — When Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four terms of life in prison on July 23 for the killings of four University of Idaho students, the judge and lead prosecutor noted that it would be the last anyone saw or heard from the 30-year-old convicted murderer who had agreed to a plea agreement in the high-profile quadruple stabbing ...Read more

Newly released video from an August 2022 traffic stop shows Bryan Kohberger telling police he’s “obviously an honest person” three months before he brutally murdered four University of Idaho students for reasons that remain unknown.

A Latah County sheriff’s deputy’s body camera captured the mass murderer stating his case after being ...Read more

Newly released video from an August 2022 traffic stop shows Bryan Kohberger telling police he’s “obviously an honest person” three months before he brutally murdered four University of Idaho students for reasons that remain unknown.

A Latah County sheriff’s deputy’s body camera captured the mass murderer stating his case after being ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday was set to jet into Texas to push back against a Republican plan to redraw congressional districts in a unusual plan that could flip at least five seats.

The Democratic minority leader is seeking to rally opposition to the plan hatched by President Donald Trump and his GOP allies to gerrymander the deep ...Read more

Modest tsunami waves arrived in California on Wednesday, damaging a dock in Crescent City, following a powerful earthquake that struck Tuesday off Russia’s east coast.

The highest tsunami waves reported on California shores peaked around 4 feet in Crescent City, about 20 miles from the Oregon border, while the highest waves in the U.S. were 5...Read more

ATLANTA — The State Ethics Commission on Wednesday accused a conservative political action committee of 61 violations of Georgia law in a case stemming from the collapse of First Liberty Building & Loan.

The Georgia Republican Assembly PAC failed to report tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of campaign expenditures, failed to file numerous...Read more

NEW YORK — Aland Etienne, the security guard murdered in a mass shooting in the lobby of a Park Avenue skyscraper, spent the final moments of his life trying to save others, NYPD officials revealed Wednesday.

Etienne, 46, “tried to crawl to hit the button to recall the elevators so the elevators wouldn’t go to the top floor,” Deputy ...Read more

DETROIT — Six people stabbed by a Cheboygan man at a Traverse City area Walmart on Saturday remained hospitalized Wednesday at Munson Medical Center, with five in good condition, while a sixth person was listed in fair condition.

All told, 11 people ranging in age from 29 to 84 were stabbed by the alleged suspect, Bradford Gille, at the ...Read more

Modest tsunami waves arrived in California on Wednesday, with no initial reports of damage, following a powerful earthquake that struck Tuesday off Russia’s east coast.

The highest tsunami waves reported on California shores as of 5:30 a.m. Pacific time were 4 feet in Crescent City while the highest waves in the United States were 5.7 feet in...Read more

NEW YORK — Shane Tamura, the gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three civilians before taking his own life inside a Midtown Manhattan Park Avenue skyscraper, left a second suicide note behind in his Las Vegas home, police sources said Wednesday.

The newly discovered note is similar to the three-page suicide screed found folded up in Tamura...Read more

A record-high share of Americans now have a negative view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the latest Gallup poll.

At the same time, support for Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip has plummeted to a record low.

The survey comes as Netanyahu’s government faces growing international condemnation for its ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — Since taking office in January, President Trump has expressed an interest in restarting talks with Kim Jong Un, whom he met for a series of unsuccessful denuclearization summits in 2018 and 2019.

But throwing cold water on the latest hopes of a Round 2 is none other than Kim Yo Jong, the powerful younger sister of the ...Read more

By almost any measure, living through a once-in-a-century pandemic emergency that killed 7 million people — including 1.1 million in the U.S. alone — was a harrowing experience.

Now, there's new evidence suggesting our brains bear the scars of that ordeal.

Living through the pandemic aged our brains faster — even among people who never ...Read more