MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee apartment building fire that began in a common area and spread to multiple floors Sunday killed four people and critically injured four others. Several more were […]
US touts ‘substantial progress’ in tariff talks with China, but details are still scarce
GENEVA — The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered “a great deal of productivity” in resolving differences between the world’s two leading economic powers, after officials wrapped […]
1st group of white South Africans heads for US after Trump offers them refugee status
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status […]
Puerto Rico seeks to lure manufacturing to boost economy as Trump tariff war deepens
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the U.S. territory, attempts to strengthen its fragile economy. Government officials are jumping on planes […]
Late abortions are rare. The US just lost a clinic that offered the procedure for over 50 years
To fellow travelers, Hannah Brehm likely looked like she was taking a belated babymoon well into her third trimester. But she and her husband had received a crushing diagnosis: Their […]
‘Beacon of freedom’ dims as US initiatives that promote democracy abroad wither
CHICAGO — Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio, trying to catch […]
From the left and right, US Catholics hope new pope fulfills their hopes
NEW YORK — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV ’s homeland, raising […]
Winning numbers drawn in Saturday’s Powerball
The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the “Powerball” game were: 05-20-28-39-42, Powerball: 13, Power Play: 2 (five, twenty, twenty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-two, Powerball: thirteen, Power Play: two) Estimated jackpot: […]
An Alaska Mother’s Day tradition: Mingling with ice age survivors on a farm
PALMER, Alaska — It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age. All moms get a daisy […]
A split jury and a lie sent him to prison. Now he’s working to change Louisiana’s law
BATON ROUGE, La. — As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story about why he […]