The National High School Ethics Bowl has just concluded its competition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Win or lose, many of the teenage participants say the experience helped them …
Judges in several states may soon get a new tool to stop dangerous drivers from speeding again. A device called intelligent speed assistance prevents a car from accelerating far past the speed limit. …
The cooks at Christopher Kimball's Milk Street make a crisp, colorful romaine and radicchio salad. They give it meaty, briny flavor from oil-cured olives and a fruity tang from pomegranate molasses. …
An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his …
The University of Florida plans to hire school president Santa Ono away from the University of Michigan. Ono was recommended as the search committee’s only finalist to be considered by the board of …
President Donald Trump is once more calling opponents “communists” as his administration wages policy fights on trade and in the courts. His use of the term continues a strategy from the 2024 …
Police in Texas say at least one person was killed when up to 14 people were shot at a party in Houston. Houston Police Department Assistant Chief Patricia Cantu says shots were reported around 12:50 …
May the 4th be with you. “Star Wars” fans around the world are celebrating the space epic and its surrounding franchise this weekend through an unofficial, fan-made holiday. A sly nod to one of …
President Donald Trump wants to tap into “beautiful, clean coal" to help meet the electricity demands of what he bills as a new dawn of manufacturing and technological advancement in the United …
President Donald Trump, in a new interview, is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution. He also says he doesn’t think military force would be needed …
Authorities say a small plane crashed into a neighborhood in Simi Valley, killing a person aboard the aircraft and damaging two homes. Fire crews responded to the scene Saturday afternoon as smoke …
Ohio authorities say they’ve solved the more than decade-old murder of a Cleveland Clinic nurse and announced murder charges against her former divorce attorney who already served jail time for …
Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” opened with $76 million in domestic ticket sales. Studio estimates released Sunday showed the film kicking off the summer box office with a solid No. 1 debut, …
Prison officials in Virginia say five guards have been injured in an attack by inmates who are MS-13 gang members. The Virginia Department of Corrections says three of the guards were stabbed and two …
More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 …
Guacamole has been spared from tariffs for now. But salsa may not be so lucky. While threatened tariffs on Mexican avocados have been put on pause, the U.S. government plans to put a nearly 21% duty …
It felt much longer, but the U.S. stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.” That’s when he shocked Wall …
Russian President Vladimir Putin said there has been no need to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine and expressed hope that such a scenario will not arise. In a preview aired Sunday of a state …
The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches. Those are the executive, meaning the president, the …
Today is Sunday, May 4, the 124th day of 2025. There are 241 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on student demonstrators during an …