A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust U.S. domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, set off panic in the historic French Quarter and postponed events, including a major football ...Read more

June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three years because of their Japanese heritage.

“We...Read more

To many, New Year’s Day represents the possibility for beginning anew.

Of late, individuals are welcoming the start of another year with a resolution to practice mindfulness, a type of meditation. Many believe mindfulness will help them relax, lessen stress and anxiety, reduce chronic pain and generally improve the quality of their ...Read more

The holiday period is over and Canadian politics is gripped by a single question: when will the country hear from Justin Trudeau?

The prime minister has largely disappeared from public view since Dec. 16, when Chrystia Freeland — his finance minister and once his most powerful ally in cabinet — resigned in devastating fashion, with a ...Read more

Jimmy Carter played a key role in repairing one of North America’s early nuclear reactor disasters.

He was a young Navy officer in the nation’s nascent nuclear-powered submarine program in 1952 when a Canadian experimental reactor near Ottawa overheated, resulting in a partial melting of fuel rods, followed by explosions which damaged the ...Read more

South Korean police searched offices and the airport where Sunday’s deadly plane crash occurred, as part of a series of raids on Thursday aimed at determining who is responsible for the disaster.

Investigators from the Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency searched the office of the Busan Regional Aviation Administration in Muan county as well as ...Read more

At 48, having raised three children now in their 20s, Jeanette Byrd is back in a world of diapers, day care and cartoons.

In the last two years, Byrd’s 3-year-old granddaughter and 1-year-old grandson were placed in her care by the Department of Children and Family Services, and now she’s on the path toward permanent guardianship of the ...Read more

THOMASVILLE, Ala. — It was a moonshot effort for a small Southern town: Open a brand-new rural hospital in the poorest region of one of the poorest states in the nation.

Thomasville, which has fewer than 4,000 residents, sits in the middle of Alabama’s Black Belt, so named for its rich, black soil. The rural, southern swath of Alabama is ...Read more

WORTHINGTON, Minn. – What Sandra Pineda remembers most is the fear.

On Dec. 12, 2006, Pineda woke up from a night shift at the Swift meatpacking facility along Interstate 90. About 8 a.m., a friend called her with a warning: Immigration officers were raiding the plant.

That morning, in a raid called Operation Wagon Train, Worthington was one...Read more

When the Carter Center hired Dr. Frank Richards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996, he and Jimmy Carter had a goal: eliminate river blindness from the earth.

River blindness doesn’t get as much press as the Carter Center’s work on Guinea worm or observing elections, much less Carter’s own work building houses with...Read more

A University of Georgia student from south Florida was critically injured in the deadly attack early New Year’s Day in New Orleans, where Bulldogs fans had gathered to cheer on their football team in the Sugar Bowl.

UGA President Jere W. Morehead said he spoke with the female student’s family and shared his support on behalf of the UGA ...Read more

President Joe Biden said law enforcement officials were looking for any additional people who may have played a part in the attack in New Orleans that left at least 15 people dead.

Biden said initial indications — including social media videos posted by the suspect in the hours ahead of the attack — suggested he had been influenced by the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio, according to officials and sources in the department.

Department leaders first learned ...Read more

Elon Musk said that the explosion of a Tesla Inc. Cybertruck outside the Trump Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday was likely an act of terror and suggested that it could be linked to a truck rampage in New Orleans that killed at least 15 people.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said a 2024 Cybertruck pulled up to the glass entrance doors ...Read more

SEATTLE — A ban on cosmetics that have been tested on animals. A new hate crime hotline. A (slightly) expanded paid sick leave program. A response to the deadly 2019 crane collapse in Seattle. Free driver's licenses for people released from prison.

These are among 15 recently passed state laws set to go into effect in Washington on Jan. 1, ...Read more

Wednesday was the first day of a potential clean slate for up to 500,000 Minnesotans with minor and nonviolent criminal records, easing barriers to jobs, housing and education.

Minnesota’s Clean Slate Act, which took effect Jan. 1, begins the process of automatically expunging eligible arrest and conviction records or people who have remained...Read more