Hilary is expected to plow into the Mexican peninsula on Saturday night and then surge northward and enter the history books as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years
The Swedish women proved once again they’re tough to beat after a semifinal loss, extending their perfect record in World Cup third-place matches to four
Animal rights activists have been fighting for years to have Lolita freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium
Teams have gotten an 80-game schedule for the coming season for now. The other two games will be based on how they fare in the new tournament that starts Nov. 3
The first couple is renting a private home on Lake Tahoe, the massive alpine lake that abuts California and Nevada and is a tourist attraction
The mainland’s ruling Communist Party claims democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and says it has no right to conduct foreign relations
California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal finds Friday that the lawsuits of Wade Robson and James Safechuck should not have been dismissed by a lower court
The 66-year-old, two-time Olympic champion was less than 24 hours removed from being elected unopposed to his third term as the global leader of track and field
In a region rife with coups, Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries that Western nations could partner with to beat back a growing jihadi insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group
The value of WeWork shares have plunged since the company went public in October 2021, after a spectacular collapse during its first attempt to do so two years earlier
The Japanese government is promoting the greater use of nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source, but the country’s nuclear plants are running out of storage capacity
The bill was introduced to thwart the planned release of 1.3 million gallons of water with traces of radioactive tritium
The July unrest exposed Palestinians’ seething resentment toward their semi-autonomous government and forced a reckoning for their beaten-down security forces, who in their blue camouflage uniforms have come to embody the tensions tearing at Palestinian society
The apparent resumption of travel came as the U.N. rights chief, Volker Türk, told the first open meeting of the U.N. Security Council on North Korean human rights since 2017 that the country was increasing its repression and people were becoming more desperate
The free shuttle will run daily in a fixed route called the Loop around Treasure Island, the site of a former U.S. Navy base in the middle of San Francisco Bay
The move is expected to make 166,700 Ukrainians eligible for Temporary Protected Status, up from about 26,000 currently
The reams of exhibits, most of which were publicly filed late Thursday and include emails and text messages, are the foundation of House Republicans’ case that Paxton abused his office and should be ousted
Forecasters warned the storm could cause extreme flooding, mudslides and even tornadoes across the region
Tatyana Koltunyuk was swimming off Rockaway Beach when a shark bit into her left leg, leaving a wound several inches wide and deep
Sam Miele was charged Wednesday with trying to impress potential donors by assuming the identity of a former aide to a top House Republican
The Republican-controlled legislature’s enactment this week of a trio of laws aimed at transgender youth, including one banning gender-affirming medical treatments for minors by overriding the Democratic governor’s veto
She will complete a rare double after also working one of the semifinals
It was not immediately clear when the first F-16s might enter the conflict, but Ukrainian pilots will first have to undertake at least six months of training on the aircraft, according to officials
Researchers take a small biopsy from the healthy eye, grow and expand the stem cells in a lab and then transplant them into the injured eye, according to a study published Friday in ‘Science Advances’
Suarez would be perhaps the least-known Republican on the stage at Wednesday’s gathering in Milwaukee, if he is there. The Republican National Committee has not yet confirmed that he has qualified
The fire in the north of the island started Tuesday night and has forced the evacuation or confinement of nearly 8,000 people
Lucy Letby was accused of deliberately harming the newborn infants in various ways, including by injecting air into their bloodstreams and administering air or milk into their stomachs via nasogastric tubes
