LOS ANGELES — During his first term, President Donald Trump was both praised and condemned for being wildly unpredictable, pushing boundaries and disregarding long-standing norms in Washington.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, then-Vice President Kamala Harris — Trump's opponent — spoke directly to his volatile leadership style in ...Read more

DENVER — Parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years, according to the National Park Service.

Monument staff discovered the fossils — which likely belong to the Diplodocus, a large, long-necked dinosaur — on Sept. 16 near ...Read more

President Donald Trump pitched his populist economic platform to autoworkers and supporters at a casino in battleground states in recent weeks. Now he’s targeting a different audience: the global elite gathered in the Swiss ski village of Davos.

Trump has vowed to unveil details of a sprawling affordability pitch — which has landed Wall ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hours before Speaker Mike Johnson became the first speaker in U.S. history to address the British Parliament, President Donald Trump was criticizing the United Kingdom’s planned ceding of overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, including the island of Diego Garcia.

“We’ve always been able to work through our differences ...Read more

CHICAGO — U.S. Geological Survey officials reported a 3.8 magnitude earthquake happened overnight near Ohlman in central Illinois.

The USGS said the quake happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. about 3 miles northeast of Ohlman, which is about 45 miles southeast of Springfield, and was felt in Sangamon and Christian counties.

As of Tuesday ...Read more

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surfaces as part of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 as a 39-year-old. He was born ...Read more

ADEN, Yemen — Stuck in Aden airport with an invitation from Saudi Arabia he couldn't — but very much wanted to — refuse, Aidarous al-Zubaidi played for time, nitpicking on points of protocol that delayed the plane's depature from Yemen for a few hours.

The Yemeni leader, who heads a separatist group backed by the Emirates but at ...Read more

President Donald Trump pitched his populist economic platform to autoworkers and supporters at a casino in battleground states in recent weeks. Now he’s targeting a different audience: the global elite gathered in the Swiss ski village of Davos.

Trump has vowed to unveil details of a sprawling affordability pitch — which has landed Wall ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Past a marble monument for a Civil War hero, down a grass path where toppled headstones disappear into ivy and weeds and faded miniature American flags droop, lies the underground vault of James Campbell, who died in 1913 and whose remains may have been among the dozens stolen in one of the largest grave desecration cases ever ...Read more

Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting.

Then 25 years old and six months pregnant, she drove herself to the emergency room in Ronan, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Reservation, where an ambulance transferred her to a larger hospital 60 miles ...Read more

When Virginia Guevara moved into a studio apartment in California’s Orange County in 2024 after nearly a decade of homelessness, she needed far more than a roof and a bed.

Scattered visits to free clinics notwithstanding, Guevara hadn’t had a full medical checkup in years. She required dental work. She wanted to start looking for a job. And...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis often says that Florida is the best state in the country for higher education.

It’s been ranked No. 1 for higher education by U.S. News & World Report for nearly a decade, and the University of Florida was tied as the seventh-ranked top public university this year. Other schools, like the University of South Florida ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — For the people who live in Minnesota or have roots here, seeing the state become the center of international attention for tragic reasons now feels like a recurring nightmare.

Minnesota — especially its urban heart, Minneapolis — has been in the global spotlight since the killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent ...Read more

When the head of the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan worries about the looming federal cuts to Medicaid, it’s not just her job. It’s personal.

Martha Santana-Chin, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up on Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, the government-run health care program for people with low incomes ...Read more

Minnesota elected officials are calling for a transparent investigation into the death of a man who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota and later died in federal custody.

Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, died Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas. Diaz was detained by ICE in Minneapolis on Jan. 6 after agents ...Read more

The Rev. Al Sharpton joined nurses in rallying outside Mount Sinai Morningside in Manhattan as the largest nurses strike in New York City history entered its second week on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“How can you spend King Day and turn your back on people that are working and not insured right, and not given the right wages, and not given ...Read more