The E.U. is preparing to step up its engagement with other countries hit by Donald Trump’s tariffs following a slew of new threats to the bloc and other U.S. trading partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

Contacts will take place with nations, including Canada and Japan, and could include the potential for coordination, said ...Read more

Several people have been taken into custody Sunday after a masked gunman fired shots toward the recreation yard at a southeast Georgia regional youth detention center, officials said.

The Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center was placed under lockdown as a precaution after the shooting and the GBI has been contacted, according to Department ...Read more

Mexican officials were taken aback by President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat after paying frequent visits to his top aides in Washington to convince him their efforts to fight drug trafficking were paying off.

For months, U.S. officials have been effusive about Mexican cooperation on issues related to the border and security. “Very ...Read more

Five wildfires are burning on thousands of acres in western Colorado, including one that crossed into the state from Utah, fire officials said Sunday.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made a verbal “disaster declaration” Sunday afternoon for the fires currently spreading across Colorado’s western slope, according to a news release from his ...Read more

At the risk of angering the city and his neighbors, Minneapolis developer and landlord Hamoudi Sabri last week opened a private homeless encampment in the parking lot of a long-vacant building he owns on E. Lake Street. About 20 people have moved in.

Sabri said he plans to open a second encampment in the North Loop on the same site where he had...Read more

CHICAGO — On a warm, late June morning at Truman College in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed attendees to the first of several budget roundtables.

He hit on a familiar litany of positive developments, touting a drop in crime, expanded mental and behavioral health services, and youth employment opportunities.

“...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Sunday to predict a system could develop near Florida this week that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, forecasters said a trough of low pressure is likely to form near the southeastern U.S. coast in the next day or two and then ...Read more

For years, science fiction has promised a future filled with robots that can swim, crawl and fly like animals. In one research lab at Caltech, what once felt like distant imagination is becoming reality.

At first glance, they look like any other moon jellyfish — soft-bodied, translucent and ghostlike, as their bell-shaped bodies pulse gently ...Read more

Emergency crews in central Texas suspended their search for victims of recent catastrophic flooding as another night of heavy rain touched off new flash flood warnings.

The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office ordered volunteers, equipment and vehicles to vacate the area around Guadalupe River as water is expected to rise, it said on its Facebook ...Read more

A “cascade of preventable failures” within the U.S. Secret Service nearly cost President Donald Trump his life during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, according to a Senate committee report released Sunday.

The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Secret Service, found ...Read more

Four wildfires are burning on thousands of acres in western Colorado, prompting a slew of mandatory evacuations, and a fifth fire is approaching from Utah, federal officials said in Sunday morning updates.

South Rim fire

The lightning-sparked South Rim fire in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park has burned 3,556 acres with no ...Read more

Two wildfires in western Colorado have burned more than 5,800 acres and continue to prompt mandatory evacuations, fire officials said Sunday morning.

The lightning-sparked South Rim fire in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park has burned 3,556 acres with no containment since Thursday, according to a Sunday morning update from the National...Read more

Christine Mertzelos is trying to avoid having her leg amputated.

Twice a week, a hospital van carries her from her home in Wrigleyville to the wound clinic at Humboldt Park Health, where a diabetic ulcer on her ankle is cleaned, treated and dressed. At one point, the ulcer wrapped nearly all the way around her lower leg — a situation that can...Read more

HARRISBURG — Recreational marijuana is back on the table for state lawmakers.

But it’s still a long way away from being legally sold in Pennsylvania.

Adult-use cannabis came the closest it’s ever gotten to being legalized in Pennsylvania in May, after the state House passed a proposal to allow state-owned stores to run a burgeoning legal...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly says lawmakers and federal agencies still don't have a complete picture of what allowed a gunman to nearly assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in the congressman's hometown of Butler last year.

"Like many in the Butler community, I still have questions about everything that led up to, and unfolded on, July 13...Read more

Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military ruler who went on to become the nation’s first opposition candidate to win a presidential election, has died. He was 82.

Buhari died on Sunday afternoon at a clinic in London, his spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement, citing his family. He didn’t provide further details.

During his ...Read more

An early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all companies for the year, but also the 500th successful mission for the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:04 a.m. carrying an Israeli communications satellite ...Read more

Emergency crews in central Texas suspended their search for victims of recent catastrophic flooding as another night of heavy rain touched off new flash flood warnings.

The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office ordered volunteers, equipment and vehicles to vacate the area around Guadalupe River as water is expected to rise, it said on its Facebook ...Read more