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

At the Mamiche bakeries in the 9th and 10th arrondissements of Paris, their famous pains au chocolat and croissants depend on an essential but increasingly scarce ingredient — butter.

The bakery’s regular supplier can no longer provide a steady flow of French beurre de tourage, a type of flat butter used to make the pastries. Mamiche has ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The highest-paid Minneapolis police employee earned about a half-million dollars last year, with nearly half of that total from overtime pay.

The city’s Police Department posted a record amount of overtime in 2024: $28 million, or $12 million more than planned.

The department has routinely exceeded its overtime budget to make...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A young undocumented man stood outside of the Hollywood Home Depot looking for work on a recent hot Wednesday afternoon. Since the store was raided by federal immigration agents in June, he’s been on high alert, fearing detainment and deportation. But he relies on being in public spaces for his livelihood, like many other ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his forehead. The 30-year-old service technician for Rose Pest Control was about halfway through his last rodent service call of the day in Ukrainian Village.

He flicked the lid off the bait box, revealing an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On a palm tree-lined bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, thousands of people rallied against the Trump administration in one of many "No Kings Day" protests around the country last month.

Here in Santa Monica, the well-heeled and beachy protesters also had a localized message: America, we're sorry.

"Santa Monica apologies for...Read more

ATLANTA -- It was a couple of years into his prison sentence that Sedrick Moore says he lost his anger toward the people who had sent him there for a crime he didn’t commit, but now, more than two decades later, he’s looking for justice.

Moore spent 21 years in Georgia’s prison system after being wrongly convicted for a 1993 rape in ...Read more

The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades.

NCI, which has long benefited from enthusiastic bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians...Read more