With heat advisories blanketing the eastern half of the U.S., air conditioners are once again working over time as essential resources to keep millions cool. But they’re unevenly distributed: Many poor households are unable to afford them.

To reduce the gap between the air conditioning haves and have nots, a growing number of programs are ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than a decade before he turned a Midtown NYC office building into a killing ground, Shane Tamura stood out as a rising star on a high school gridiron.

Police believe the 27-year-old shooter’s obsession with CTE, a brain disease football players often suffer from repetitive blows to the head, sent him on a deadly path to New ...Read more

U.S. and European officials say they’re seeing a decline in suspected Russian state-backed sabotage acts this year, evidence that President Vladimir Putin’s security services may be reining in a hybrid warfare campaign that’s been blamed for attacks across Europe.

The drop-off in operations, which have involved Russian intelligence agents...Read more

LOS ANGELES — University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and federal agencies on Wednesday suspended more than $300 million in research grants to the school.

Do they agree to a costly ...Read more

NEW YORK — A new court filing Friday in a lawsuit against Tim Pearson has reopened an old wound for a woman who alleged 12 years ago she was sexually assaulted in a Nassau County hotel by the former senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams.

The woman’s allegation in 2013 never resulted in any charges against Pearson, and NYPD Internal Affairs ...Read more

Officials are warning the public to stay out of the water near a popular resort on Lake Tahoe's southern shore this weekend after detecting "high levels" of E. coli bacteria Friday after a sewage leak.

Water quality samples collected near the Camp Richardson Resort revealed elevated levels of Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli, ...Read more

Six months into his comeback term, Donald Trump has taken full ownership of the U.S. economy. For better or worse, his party must now sell it to voters.

The president has hailed the world’s “hottest” economy – and found others to blame for any wobbles. When Friday’s jobs report showed a dramatic slowdown in hiring, he fired the head ...Read more

President Donald Trump suddenly has a chance to fill an opening at the Federal Reserve earlier than expected, after Fed Governor Adriana Kugler announced her resignation Friday.

It may also force him to pick the next Fed chair months sooner than he’d anticipated.

“The ball is now in Trump’s court,” said Derek Tang, an economist at LH ...Read more

Harvard University is drawing an increasing share of its revenue from helping businesspeople beef up their résumés, giving America’s oldest institution of higher learning a lifeline as it confronts its largest-ever crisis.

Years before the Trump administration halted billions of dollars in federal funding over allegations of antisemitism, ...Read more

EAST LYNNE, Mo. — Earlier this year, Jamie Hasenyager got into a car wreck while working as a mobile pet services provider. She was supposed to get a payout of $30,000, but her car title never showed up in the mail. Weeks passed. She waited.

Hasenyager finally went to her local DMV to figure out what was going on, and learned the title had ...Read more

If any nonprofit epitomizes the whiplash experienced by climate advocacy groups in the U.S. over the past few years, it’s Rewiring America.

Founded in 2020 shortly before former President Joe Biden was elected, the organization focuses on shifting U.S. homes from fossil fuel-powered appliances to electric ones like heat pumps — a prime goal...Read more

New Hampshire has become the first state to require doctors and medical staff to sterilize patients who request it.

The measure focuses on adults who have medical conditions for which sterilization may be a treatment option. New Hampshire Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed the bipartisan bill into law on July 15.

The law says physicians can�...Read more

A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head. A child with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was forced to go without his medication, despite his mother’s pleas.

“I heard one officer say about us �...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — American Indian leaders on Minneapolis’ South Side say they’ve been overwhelmed this summer with large outdoor gatherings of transient people, drug users and dealers, and are demanding police escalate arrests.

The executive directors of several community organizations have resolved to draw 50-yard “exclusionary zones” ...Read more

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a stinging blow to the Trump administration’s mass deportation project Friday night in a fiery opinion upholding a lower court’s block on “roving patrols” across much of Southern California.

“If, as Defendants suggest, they are not conducting stops that lack reasonable suspicion, they can ...Read more