Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods …
Asian shares are mixed on Friday as investors await a key U.S. inflation report. U.S. futures and oil prices slipped after gains in technology stocks on Wall Street helped propel U.S. stocks to …
A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront. Gulfport's goal was to speed up rebuilding and boost the …
President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials. It has already pulled funding …
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election for a state Senate seat that has been vacant for nearly nine months. Kristen McDonald Rivet vacated the seat when she was elected to the …
Prime Video's new series “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf” starring Taylor Kitsch is a spinoff of 2022's “Terminal List.” It follows Kitsch as Ben Edwards, a Navy SEAL in Iraq who ends up …
A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced in federal court. Mathew Bowyer pleaded …
“Frankenstein” may be the culmination of Guillermo del Toro’s artistic life. It’s his chance to, finally, unleash a movie — an epic of creator and creation, father and son, God and sinner …
The case of a Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities even though he was vetted by a government system called E-Verify is raising questions about what employers can do to make …
Israel says Gaza City is now considered a dangerous combat zone as it begins the initial stages of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation. Its military also says it recovered …
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case in Tennessee. Abrego Garcia's attorneys say Trump administration officials keep attacking him …
Some U.S. businesses verify applicants’ eligibility to work using an online government system called E-Verify. When individuals present their documents showing they’re authorized to work, …
New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is out courting Black voters, trying to do better with them in the general election than he did in the primary. Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary …
Florida boasts at least 1,000 freshwater springs, more than any other U.S. state. They are all under threats from agricultural pollution, stress from rapid development and from climate change that is …
Gaza Health Ministry says more than 63,000 Palestinians killed as Israel-Hamas war drags on.
Most categories of crime have continued to fall in Minneapolis after a surge that followed the 2020 killing of George Floyd. But the summer of 2025 has seen a spike in violence that has repeatedly …
A national group of Latino public health leaders has announced the launch of a new research institute, which they say is a response to the hundreds of millions in federal funding cuts related to …
Fire departments are increasingly switching to gear that doesn’t contain potentially cancer-causing chemicals. The department in East Providence, Rhode Island, is the first in the country to …
A case that could provide the Trump administration with new and expansive power over the traditionally independent Federal Reserve will get its first court hearing Friday.Federal Reserve Governor …
President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities as a way to fight crime. Yet behind the aggressive talk, data actually shows that most U.S. violent …