LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Wolfe County commonwealth’s attorney has moved to dismiss a fetal homicide charge against a Kentucky woman arrested after a medication abortion.

Miranda King, the lead prosecutor for Wolfe County, filed a motion to dismiss a fetal homicide charge against Melinda Spencer, 35, of Campton, according to documents available...Read more

Iran’s president ordered security forces not to target peaceful protesters, a bid to defuse violent unrest that activists say has left at least 36 people dead.

“No security action should be taken” against those protesting economic hardship as long as they don’t compromise national security, President Masoud Pezeshkian’s deputy ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami man who threw a 5-year-old girl into the Everglades and left her to be eaten by alligators could again be condemned to die almost three decades after the girl’s cruel death.

Harrel Braddy, 76, kidnapped Quatisha Maycock, 5, and her mother, Shandelle Maycock — an acquaintance Braddy met in a church group — on the night of...Read more

MIAMI — As her administration gears up for the bruising task of balancing Miami-Dade County’s next budget, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is replacing her longtime budget chief with her library director.

Chief Budget Officer David Clodfelter, who helped Levine Cava manage a massive influx of federal COVID aid and then propose austerity measures...Read more

Iran’s president ordered security forces not to target peaceful protesters, a bid to defuse violent unrest that activists say has left at least 36 people dead.

“No security action should be taken” against those protesting economic hardship as long as they don’t compromise national security, President Masoud Pezeshkian’s deputy ...Read more

Denmark is banking on a proposed high-level meeting in Washington to defuse President Donald Trump’s renewed push on Greenland and reset strained ties with the U.S. over the strategic Arctic territory.

Danish and Greenlandic officials want to meet with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the U.S. capital, Lars-Christian Brask, vice-chairman of ...Read more

China is testing Donald Trump’s support for America’s top ally in Asia by imposing export controls on Japan months after the U.S. leader boasted he’d settled the rare earth issue “for the world.”

Beijing turned up the heat on Tokyo this week by banning all dual-use shipments for military use — potentially targeting an estimated 40%...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On the morning of March 5, 2001, Charles "Andy" Williams took a black revolver that he'd gotten from his father's locked gun cabinet and calmly and methodically unleashed a barrage of gunfire into the bathroom, hallway and quad of Santana High School.

Two students died and 13 people were wounded in the attack at the suburban San...Read more

CHICAGO — Paul Terry walked out of prison more than 20 years ago after DNA evidence cleared him of a crime he was convicted of as a teenager. He was free, but the life he lost has never returned.

Now 67, Terry rarely speaks. He spends much of his time confining himself to his bedroom inside a South Side home he shares with his family, still ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare for the future.

The latest research, however, suggests they are more like well-thumbed library books that wear and change a little bit every time they're pulled off the shelf.

Think of one of your ...Read more

CHICAGO — For decades, strong Chicago mayors told acquiescent aldermen here’s the budget, take it or leave it, secure in the knowledge they had the votes to pass basically whatever they wanted.

The message has long been “trust me, it’s great,” Ald. Nicole Lee said.

But the City Council gave a new reply this year when Mayor Brandon ...Read more

Members of the California State Legislature and environmental advocates blasted the Trump administration on Tuesday over proposed offshore drilling expansion plans off the California coast, urging residents to oppose the proposal before the Jan. 23 deadline for public comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

The condemnation came ...Read more

The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday released a report after its own investigation into FireAid, the charity founded by Clippers executives that raised $100 million for wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles last January.

The investigation — led by Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) under committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — began in August...Read more

NEW YORK — Tekashi69 surrendered himself to federal authorities on Tuesday at the same Brooklyn jail where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife are being held.

The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, turned himself in at the Metropolitan Detention Center on 29th St. near Third Ave. in Sunset Park to serve a 90-day ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has told Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, that her government must exclusively partner with the U.S. on oil production and favor the U.S. when selling heavy crude, ABC reported.

The U.S. is also demanding that Venezuela reduce its relationships with China, Russia, Iran and Cuba, ABC ...Read more

A third person has died following the fire at a Bucks County nursing home that claimed the lives of two other people and injured 20 others days before Christmas.

Bristol Township identified resident Patricia Mero, 66, as the latest death following the fire that destroyed parts of the Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township on Dec. 23....Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is facing strong public opposition to its proposed plans to extend closure deadlines until October 2031 for 11 coal plants across the country — three of which are in Illinois and one in northwest Indiana.

But many environmental experts, including Earthjustice senior attorney Mychal Ozaeta, say the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani swore in his new Fire commissioner Tuesday, and made it clear — despite critics’ fearmongering — that she’s more than qualified to head the nation’s largest Fire Department.

“I have appointed Lillian Bonsignore to this role for her wealth of experience and vision for how to lead the FDNY, as well as...Read more