Friedrich Merz will make another attempt to secure parliamentary backing as Germany’s next chancellor later on Tuesday after his humiliating shock loss in an initial vote.

The conservative leader earlier in the day fell short of a majority in a secret ballot in the Bundestag to confirm him as the head of a ruling coalition of his center-right...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump first used the power of the White House against a law firm in February, ordering a review of Covington & Burling’s government contracts because a lawyer had assisted the special prosecutor who indicted him in Florida and the District of Columbia.

Security clearances should be suspended, Trump wrote, ...Read more

Israeli jets struck the airport in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on Tuesday in retaliation for a Houthi missile strike last weekend, according to Yemeni media.

Israeli forces also launched strikes on a power station in Sanaa and a cement plant around Amran, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces warned ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jarold Walters was outside a gas station trying to figure out how he was going to eat and where he was going to sleep when a man wearing a “Go Army” lanyard approached and asked if he was a veteran.

Navy, said Walters, who served during the Gulf War.

I can help you, Michael Bailey said.

“I told him, I don’t believe ...Read more

Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorney general can’t prosecute — or threaten to prosecute — people or organizations who help Alabama residents seek an abortion by traveling to another state.

One of the plaintiffs, the reproductive ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at her Kern County home in October 1994. The day before, he had broken into Breck's home and stolen her credit cards. He returned — initially ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — As South Koreans prepare to elect a successor to ousted former president Yoon Suk Yeol, a court ruling against front-runner Lee Jae-myung has thrust the country — which has been under interim leadership for the last five months — into further uncertainty.

Yoon, who was impeached for declaring martial law in December, ...Read more

DENVER — Rusty crayfish, an aquatic nuisance and an invasive species, has been discovered in a Larimer County river south of Estes Park, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

This is the first time the crayfish has been confirmed in the agency’s northeast region and the second time it’s been found east of the Continental Divide in ...Read more

Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, California, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.”

Reddy can’t match the salaries offered by larger ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A UNLV-led study has discovered a new molecular path that leads to autism, potentially opening the way for more intervention in the future.

The study by Łukasz Sznajder, a UNLV chemistry and biochemistry professor, was published on April 21 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

It found that a gene that causes myotonic dystrophy �...Read more

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it.

More than a dozen states have enacted laws banning public school educators from teaching youngsters to read using an approach that’s been popular for decades. ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Joseph Charry said he didn’t come to the University of South Florida to protest.

But the Colombian student’s role in pro-Palestine protests last spring led him to temporarily lose his visa and return home, an experience thousands of international students across the country are now facing for an array of reasons from protests...Read more

The new bishop of Camden said Monday that his diocese would no longer oppose a statewide investigation of sex abuse by clergy — a stunning reversal after the diocese had spent years arguing in sealed court documents that the probe proposed by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office should not be allowed to move forward.

In an interview, ...Read more

Jury selection for the federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs began on Monday morning in New York. The high-profile defendant has been behind bars for eight months awaiting trial for charges including racketeering, transportation to engage in prostitution, sex trafficking, as well as an additional charge of forced labor against ...Read more

Santa Clara County and San Francisco, along with seven other local governments, are asking a federal judge to block the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from placing “unlawful” conditions on federal funds — stipulations that could put millions of dollars to address homelessness at risk.

The lawsuit, which is being led by ...Read more

An immigration judge has terminated the deportation case against Doğukan Günaydin, the University of Minnesota student who was arrested in late March, although he is expected to remain in custody as the federal government appeals the decision.

Immigration Judge Sarah Mazzie filed the ruling on Thursday. It came days after U.S. federal court ...Read more

The Trump administration is declaring Harvard University ineligible for new research grants from the federal government in the latest escalation between the White House and the Ivy League school.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent the university a letter warning that access to additional federal funding would not be possible until “they ...Read more

Los Angeles County has declared a communitywide outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious viral disease that can lead to lasting liver damage or even death.

Although cases of hepatitis A are nothing new in the region, health officials are now expressing alarm both at the prevalence of the disease and who is becoming infected.

The total of ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Atlanta City Council on Monday took its most forceful steps yet to try to curb high-speed pursuits involving the Georgia State Patrol, weeks after a chase led to a crash that killed a 19-year-old bystander in Little Five Points.

The council unanimously approved a resolution urging the state to amend GSP’s pursuit policy to ...Read more

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and five other northeastern governors invited Canadian premiers to Boston to discuss the impacts of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and how the two countries can maintain “strong trade relations that benefit local businesses and residents,” Healey’s office said Monday.

The potential future gathering, ...Read more