HARRISBURG, Pa. — Philadelphia voters on Tuesday will fill two vacant state House seats in special elections, and in both cases a Democratic candidate is the only person on the […]
Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed as Wall Street gears up for an interest rate cut
Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday as world markets geared up for the Federal Reserve’s most anticipated meeting in years. Tokyo’s Nikkei index fell 1% to 36,203.22 and the […]
UN rights experts decry worsening repression in Venezuela in wake of contested election result
GENEVA — Independent U.N. human rights experts said in a new report Tuesday that their findings show Venezuela’s government has intensified the use of “harshest and most violent” tools of […]
Arizona tribe fights to stop lithium drilling on culturally significant lands
PHOENIX — Members of an Arizona tribe are trying to persuade a federal judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have […]
Senate to vote again on IVF protections in election-year push
WASHINGTON — The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation that would establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization — Democrats’ latest election-year attempt to […]
US Coast Guard says Russian naval vessels crossed into buffer zone off Alaska
The U.S. Coast Guard says it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels as they crossed into U.S. waters in off Alaska in an apparent effort to avoid sea ice, […]
A key employee who called the Titan unsafe will testify before the Coast Guard
A key employee who labeled an experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage was set to testify Tuesday before U.S. Coast Guard investigators. David Lochridge is one of […]
Tough treatment and good memories mix at newest national site dedicated to Latinos
In the second half of the 20th century, Mexican and Mexican-American children in Marfa, Texas, were educated in an adobe-style building in classrooms that alumni describe as barracks. They received […]
Not-so-great expectations: Students are reading fewer books in English class
Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers played […]
Florida sheriff fed up with school shooting hoaxes posts boy’s mugshot to social media
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: […]