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NATIONAL NEWS


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Can a marriage survive a gender transition? Yes, and even thrive. How these couples make it work

5 hours ago

Snapchat Inc. to pay $15 million to settle discrimination and harassment lawsuit in California

11 hours ago

A Missouri mayor says a fight over jobs is back on. Things to know about Kansas wooing the Chiefs

3 hours ago

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.

32 minutes ago

Alberto, season's first named tropical storm, dumps rain on Texas and Mexico, which reports 3 deaths

Tropical Storm Alberto has formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the first named storm of what is forecast to be a busy hurricane season.

15 hours ago

Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus

With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough.

12 hours ago

On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War

Darren Sands, now a reporter for The Associated Press, was researching his family history three years ago when he found a riveting missing piece.

3 hours ago

New Mexico wildfire claims second life, while rain offers hope of relief

Heavy rain and hail are falling around an evacuated village in New Mexico threatened by wildfires that have killed at least two people and damaged more than 1,400 structures, offering the hope of some assistance for firefighters but adding the threat of high winds and flash floods.

8 hours ago

Scorching temperatures, humidity making life miserable for millions from Midwest to Maine

A blistering heat wave stretching from the Midwest to the tip of Maine is leaving millions of people sweltering through the Juneteenth holiday.

12 hours ago

Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple in Maine a killer ocean view. Residents wonder, at what cost?

There was one thing missing when a wealthy Missouri couple purchased their oceanfront home overlooking Camden Harbor in Maine: The million-dollar view was blocked by a neighbor's trees.

1 day ago

With pardons in Maryland, 2.5 million Americans will have marijuana convictions cleared or forgiven

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pardoning 175,000 people with cannabis convictions.

1 day ago

Attorneys for Baltimore seek to keep crew members from bridge collapse ship from returning home

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to prevent crew members on the cargo ship Dali from returning to their home countries as investigations continue into the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March.

1 day ago

Missouri attorney general says not so fast on freeing woman jailed for 43 years in 1980 killing

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to put the brakes on releasing a woman from prison in a 1980 killing that her attorneys allege was committed by a now-discredited police officer.

1 day ago

Noam Chomsky's wife says reports of famed linguist's death are false

Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue.

1 day ago

24 people charged in money laundering scheme involving Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, prosecutors say

Federal authorities say they've uncovered a complex scheme between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese individuals in the U.S. who laundered millions of dollars from illicit drug sales.

1 day ago

US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes

The U.S. government has acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes.

1 day ago

Turmoil rocks New Jersey's Democratic political bosses just in time for an election

Being a political boss in New Jersey ain’t what it used to be.

1 day ago

What's a heat dome? Here's why so much of the US is broiling this week

Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week.

1 day ago

Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a series of quickly vanishing structures

A strange monolith has been found jutting out of a remote mountain peak near Las Vegas.

LOCAL NEWS


2 hours ago

Former State Senator Audrey Gibson resigns from role with city

2 hours ago

Child overdoses on drugs becoming distressingly frequent, experts warn

3 hours ago

2 rescued from sinking boat caught in ‘rough’ Vilano Beach waters

5 hours ago

FHP makes arrest in Orange Park fatal hit-and-run crash from 2023

5 hours ago

The downtown Jacksonville parks set to get millions for improvements from Jags stadium deal

6 hours ago

Citizens Property Insurance board approves a 14% price increase for policy holders

1 day ago

Lawyer for man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie says client doesn't want offered plea deal

The lawyer for the New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie says his client isn't interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge.

1 day ago

Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn pleads not guilty in Arizona’s fake elector case

Three people facing charges connected to trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss are pleading not guilty.

1 day ago

The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth

Many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free.

1 day ago

Singer Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

Pop star Justin Timberlake has been charged with drunken driving in a village in New York's Hamptons.

1 day ago

Ralph Lauren goes with basic blue jeans for Team USA's opening Olympic ceremony uniforms

When Team USA walks with the world’s athletes during the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony, they’ll be doing so in snappy blue blazers and blue jeans from Ralph Lauren.

1 day ago

New wildfires grow in Northern California as firefighters gain ground against big blaze in the south

Big new wildfires are challenging California firefighters even as they increase containment of earlier blazes that erupted as dry winds arrived last weekend.

1 day ago

Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a sweeping new plan from Biden

President Joe Biden has ordered an expansive election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after the Democratic president's own aggressive immigration crackdown at the southern border earlier this month.

18 hours ago

Georgia father freed from prison 10 years after his toddler died in hot car, booked into county jail

Jail and prison records show that a father has been released from prison 10 years after his toddler died in a hot car, a case that made global headlines after prosecutors accused him of murder.

1 day ago

Undersea explorers mark a tragic day. Things to know about the Titan disaster anniversary

Unanswered questions linger a year after the implosion of the Titan submersible during its deep-sea voyage to the wreckage of the Titanic.

2 days ago

Biofuel groups envision ethanol-powered jets. But fueling the effort has not been easy

Farming and biofuels organizations are hopeful that ethanol could be used to power passenger jets, but making that dream a reality hasn’t been easy.

1 day ago

At least 1 dead in New Mexico wildfire that forced thousands to flee, governor's office says

The New Mexico governor's office says at least one person has died in a wildfire that has forced thousands to evacuate.

1 day ago

Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest and Northeast, bringing safety measures

Extreme heat alerts are in effect for tens of millions of people in the United States as cities including Chicago break heat records.

2 days ago

When colleges close, students are left scrambling. Some never go back to school

More colleges around the country have been closing as they cope with steep declines in enrollment.

1 day ago

When violence and trauma visit American places, a complex question follows: Demolish, or press on?

Parkland.

1 day ago

Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds

Majorities of Americans favor forgiving all or some of an individual’s medical debt if the person is facing hardships.

2 days ago

Los Angeles will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit against journalist over undercover police photos

The city of Los Angeles will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit it filed against a local journalist and a technology watchdog group last year for posting the photos and information of hundreds of undercover police officers online.

2 days ago

A judge temporarily blocks Iowa law that allows authorities to charge people facing deportation

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Iowa law that allows law enforcement in the state to file criminal charges against people with outstanding deportation orders or who previously had been denied entry to the United States.

2 days ago

The Washington Post's leaders are taking heat for journalism in Britain that wouldn't fly in the US

A trio of extraordinary stories are increasing the pressure on The Washington Post's new leadership, along with highlighting the differences in journalism practices in England and the United States.

2 days ago

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota sues to take an abortion rights initiative off the ballot

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit to block an abortion rights measure from the November ballot.

2 days ago

If you can't stay indoors during this US heat wave, here are a few ideas

It’s hot and getting hotter for workers and everyone else outdoors as the first significant heat wave of the year makes its way eastward across the United States.

2 days ago

Historic SS United States is ordered out of its berth in Philadelphia. Can it find new shores?

A federal judge says a historic ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago must leave its berth in Philadelphia by Sept. 12.

2 days ago

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' will hit US theaters in September

After months of conjecture about the fate of Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed epic, “Megalopolis” has finally found a home.

2 days ago

New Jersey power broker is charged with racketeering in waterfront redevelopment case

New Jersey’s attorney general has charged Democratic power broker George Norcross with racketeering and other crimes in connection with government issued tax credits.

2 days ago

Army lieutenant colonel says Lewiston shooter had 'low threat' profile upon leaving hospital

A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history had a low threat profile when he left a psychiatric hospital prior to the killings.

2 days ago

Biden's Title IX law expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students is dealt another setback

The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students has hit another roadblock.

2 days ago

Lost chances to treat overdose survivors are documented in new Medicare study

People on Medicare who survived a drug overdose were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose.

2 days ago

Michigan, CUNY didn't suitably assess if Israel-Hamas war protests made environment hostile, US says

The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn't adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents.

2 days ago

The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process

The Internal Revenue Service plans to end another major tax loophole that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade.

2 days ago

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Scorching Northern Hemisphere heat leads to deaths and wildfires

The United States is bracing for chaotic weather this week, as the South is set to experience another heat wave following a short respite from searing temperatures earlier this month.

2 days ago

Strong winds, steep terrain hamper crews battling Los Angeles area's first major fire of the year

Strong winds are pushing flames from a wildfire through dry brush in mountains along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles.

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