TAMPA, Fla. -- Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood.

Drake Elting holds the smoker while Stephanie Ramthun pulls out a wooden slat covered in buzzing honeybees.

The pair, dressed in thick white suits, look like astronauts exploring another planet.

In a way, they are.

They’re ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As of 7:50 p.m. Saturday, police, some on horseback, and a small group of demonstrators remained locked in a standoff outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center.

Earlier officers had arrested dozens of protesters after authorities fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd, leaving at least one person with an eye ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At a historic auditorium in Washington this week, Silicon Valley executives, Trump administration officials and members of Congress gathered in a sea of button-down shirts to extol the virtues of artificial intelligence.

Two days later, labor leaders joined a handful of U.S. lawmakers in a D.C. hotel ballroom to strategize how to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department issued a citywide tactical alert “due to incidents occurring on Alameda between Aliso and Temple” in the downtown area.

The Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison, is located at that intersection.

Authorities declared the tactical alert at 5 p.m., said LAPD Officer Jeff Lee.

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Latin American governments from Panama to Chile that politically aligned themselves with Donald Trump are now absorbing a hit from the global oil-price surge triggered by their U.S. ally’s war on Iran.

So far, many regional leaders are asking their people to grin and bear price increases rather than return to fuel subsidies that were once ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul on Saturday for a rally serving as the “national flagship” for a third round of nationwide protests against what participants call the authoritarian aims of President Donald Trump.

The “No Kings” rally headlined by singer Bruce ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of protesters railing against ICE, the war in Iran and President Donald Trump’s “ongoing consolidation of executive power” took to Manhattan’s streets Saturday with one unified cry: “No Kings.”

Toting banners reading “We Will Not Be Silenced,” “Dump Trump” and “No War, No Kings,” and ...Read more

MIAMI —Yes, they chanted and sang. But for the protesters who packed Tropical Park on Saturday for a “No Kings” rally, their signs carried the main message.

“No Kings. No Felons,” read one. “Dump Don,” read another.

Others signs were just as blunt when it came to President Donald Trump or ICE, and spiced with an F-word or two.

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PHILADELPHIA — With continued uncertainty about federal research funding, the University of Pennsylvania’s engineering school on Friday launched a $200 million fund to finance innovative projects at their earliest stages.

The initial fund will support research and educational advances at the School of Engineering and Applied Science over ...Read more

DENVER — Carol Swan went to her first-ever protest in Denver’s Civic Center on Saturday dressed like Lady Liberty — a tiara of crystals and wire, a teal bedsheet-turned-dress that belonged to her late grandmother and a torch fashioned from aluminum foil.

The 74-year-old Lochbuie resident doesn’t like crowds. She normally protests alone ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rolling wave of “No Kings” protests swelled through America’s small towns and big cities Saturday, with crowds gathering to blast President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns, the war in Iran and high gas and food prices.

Saturday’s demonstrations were expected to draw millions of people ...Read more

Joseph Duggar in a jailhouse phone call with his wife revealed he has spent most of his time in solitary confinement following his arrest for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl in Florida more than five years ago.

“I’ve been spending a lot of time reading the Bible, they got me a Bible in here,” Duggar told his wife, Kendra Duggar, per...Read more

Amir and Khaled Shanaran went out to their fields in the southern Hebron Hills at around 3:30 pm on a recent Saturday.

An Israeli settler was grazing sheep on their land, and they asked him to leave. Within minutes, two more settlers arrived on tractors. One of them pulled out a gun and shot Amir in the neck, killing him instantly. Khaled was ...Read more

NEW YORK — The admission by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided false information to justify mass arrests at immigration courts has sparked fury among attorneys and advocates, and demands that those detained in the crackdown be freed.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan told a...Read more

Houthi militants launched ballistic missiles at Israel on Saturday morning, marking their entry into the monthlong Iran war that has already caused chaos in energy markets and killed thousands of people.

Some 3,500 sailors and Marines arrived in the region on an amphibious assault ship, according to the U.S. military. Israel continued bombing ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Tired of the spring Las Vegas heat? You’re in luck because a major cooldown is on the way. But not until next week.

Expect more record-breaking temperatures this weekend as the historic March heat wave begins to wane. Daytime forecast highs for Saturday and Sunday will be in the low 90s. Saturday’s record high is 91 (set in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Instead of agreeing on a traditional, 20-year deal for the Colorado River, the states that share the water source are focused on a short-term plan as they stare down the basin’s worst snow season in two decades.

But that doesn’t mean officials are ready to agree any time soon, despite mounting federal pressure to do so.

“We...Read more

María Corina Machado’s party headquarters reopened on Saturday in Caracas after being shuttered in the aftermath of the contested 2024 presidential election that drove the Venezuelan opposition leader into hiding.

The reopening underscores a tentative political shift after the capture of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, as interim ...Read more

French anti-terrorism authorities are investigating a foiled bombing near the Bank of America Corp. headquarters in Paris that they said appeared to be linked to the Middle East conflict.

The attempted attack in the early hours of Saturday, in which suspects attempted to detonate a homemade explosive device, was similar to recent events in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Tired of the spring Las Vegas heat? You’re in luck because a major cooldown is on the way. But not until next week.

Expect more record-breaking temperatures this weekend as the historic March heat wave begins to wane. Daytime forecast highs for Saturday and Sunday will be in the low 90s. Saturday’s record high is 91 (set in ...Read more