BAY LAKE, Florida — A Walt Disney World cast member was injured blocking the massive boulder prop from hitting the audience Tuesday at the Indiana Jones attraction at Hollywood Studios.

Disney confirmed the employee was recovering and the iconic feature of the boulder scene in the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular would be changed.

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Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl has been diagnosed with dementia and will withdraw from public life, he announced Tuesday.

“I was blessed to represent the people of Arizona in Congress and to have numerous other opportunities to contribute to the political and civic life of our nation and state,” Kyl, 83, said in a statement.

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President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.

Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much ...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said he held a “productive call” with European leaders on the next steps in President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring a halt to Russia’s war in Ukraine, following new challenges in the peace negotiations this week.

Witkoff, in a post Wednesday on X, said that he along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ...Read more

The Trump administration’s pledge to freeze $185 million in child care payments to Minnesota could put a financial squeeze on thousands of low-income families as federal and state leaders spar over how to address a spiraling fraud problem.

The funding helps cover the cost of child care for about 23,000 children and 12,000 families each month ...Read more

The day after Christmas is typically quiet in the nation's capital. But President Trump's decision to acknowledge a covert U.S. strike on Venezuelan territory, in an interview with an obscure local news outlet on Friday, set off a scramble in a drowsy Washington that has become a hallmark of the president.

Officials working on Latin America ...Read more

The state Supreme Court has turned back a weapons possession challenge when it ruled that courts can issue protective orders barring gun ownership in cases where subjects of the orders are not explicitly accused of crimes involving violence or threats of violence.

The decision rejects arguments by an anonymous defendant who claimed that he was ...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said he held a “productive call” with European leaders on the next steps in President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring a halt to Russia’s war in Ukraine, following new challenges in the peace negotiations this week.

Witkoff, in a post Wednesday on X, said that he along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ...Read more

The Trump administration backed off its effort to block a court order returning control of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a brief filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers said they no longer oppose lifting a partial administrative stay and formally...Read more

After a year of major shifts in the federal government’s policy toward vaccines, Americans are now more likely to trust the American Medical Association than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when the two conflict on vaccine guidance, a new survey shows.

The survey, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public...Read more

What would New Year’s Eve in Times Square be for the crowds there and people watching remotely without a couple of key ingredients? The glitzy ball and all ... that ... confetti.

There’s something quite magical, really, about millions of bits of colorful paper flying like snow through the air over a raucous rabble. So American of us, though...Read more

A body was uncovered in a Texas field amid the search for Camila Mendoza Olmos, a 19-year-old who has not been seen since Christmas Eve, officials said.

The medical examiner has not determined a cause and manner of death, but foul play is not suspected at this time, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told reporters, adding that self-harm may ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's plan to stabilize its struggling rural health care systems will get a $193 million infusion as President Donald Trump's administration implements a new five-year program that some say will not offset future Medicaid cuts.

The federal funding — which the state plans to first spend on the most pressing rural care ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When President Donald Trump announced earlier this year that he was nominating David Metcalf to be Philadelphia’s U.S. attorney, it initially seemed as if the move was in line with Trump’s chaotic and contentious attempt to upend the nation’s justice system.

The decision was abrupt, apparently made without advanced input ...Read more

DENVER — The Trump administration, in its ongoing push to boost fossil fuels, issued an emergency order Tuesday to keep an aging coal-fired power plant in Craig, Colorado, operating even though it was scheduled to be retired this week.

The move was criticized by Colorado environmentalists, who said it will cost utility ratepayers and harm ...Read more

DENVER — A Ferris State University marketing professor arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last month was fired, the university confirmed Tuesday.

The university declined to expand on the firing of the former professor, Sumith Gunasekera.

Dave Murray, associate vice president for marketing and communications at ...Read more

The Trump administration is freezing child care payments to Minnesota and demanding a comprehensive audit to identify any illicit activity in government programs, escalating a fight with the state over alleged fraud.

“We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,” Jim O’Neill, the deputy secretary for the Department of...Read more