Satellite operators are looking north. Way north. As the U.S., China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communication links with satellites orbiting near the North Pole is making Arctic ground stations a hot commodity.

That’s turned Deadhorse, Alaska, into an unlikely outpost in the space race. The community on the ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — No floodlights illuminate the night sky when the citizens of Mexico's Gotham need a hand. No hot line summons this super-cop from a hidden redoubt.

But Mexico does indeed have its own "Batman": Omar García Harfuch, security czar in the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum.

He acquired the Batman moniker during his days as...Read more

As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills.

Several businesses and nonprofits have launched AI-powered tools to help patients get their insurance claims paid and navigate byzantine ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Javier Perez, a senior at Benjamin Franklin Senior High School in Highland Park, dreams of studying computer science at Dartmouth College.

"For me, it's really important to be surrounded by the right people," said Perez, who earlier this year spent two days on the New Hampshire campus during a spring college tour and said he ...Read more

Leah Kovitch was pulling invasive plants in the meadow near her home one weekend in late April when a tick latched onto her leg.

She didn’t notice the tiny bug until Monday, when her calf muscle began to feel sore. She made an appointment that morning with a telehealth doctor — one recommended by her health insurance plan — who prescribed...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Four people were killed and 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting Saturday evening during a child’s birthday party in Stockton, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. at a banquet hall in the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue, near Thornton Road, the Sheriff’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican-led Senate and House committees say they will increase scrutiny of the Pentagon after a report said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of all crew members of a vessel suspected to be carrying drugs, The Washington Post reports.

The Post reported earlier that Hegseth had given a spoken order that all ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — “Let’s do the ball toss,” a young woman excitedly said to the young man with her as they walked into the St. Paul RiverCentre auditorium Saturday for the 45th annual Minnesota Hmong New Year celebration.

They were already holding hands, but the ball toss courtship ritual has long been a way to signal a person is single and...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau has been interviewing Manhattan North commanders in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest at Park East Synagogue last week that sparked outrage and questions about the department’s response, The New York Daily News has learned.

IAB Group 1, which handles investigations of captains and ...Read more

CHICAGO — As heavy snow blanketed the Chicago area Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service warned of up to 10 inches of accumulation by the morning. More than 1,000 flights were canceled at the city’s airports, while road conditions also grew hazardous.

The weather service expected total snow accumulations between 6 and 10 inches ...Read more

LONDON — Keir Starmer has six months to prove his mettle to his party amid swirling doubts within the governing Labour Party that he can reverse plunging public confidence in his U.K. administration.

The prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves survived a budget statement this week that did just about enough to avoid a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Top administrators across the California State University system will receive more than a half-million dollars in pay raises in what trustees said is an effort to improve recruiting for executive-level candidates — but the policy change sparked outrage from faculty and staff who said it comes as they face “tsunamis” of...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has married partner Jodie Haydon, becoming the nation’s first leader to wed while in office.

The couple tied the knot at a small ceremony on Saturday in the presence of family and close friends at the prime minister’s official residence in Canberra, Albanese said in a statement.

“We are ...Read more

South African police have arrested four men en route to Russia on suspicion they would contravene the country’s laws against assisting foreign military forces.

The men were arrested at the OR Tambo airport near Johannesburg on Friday and will appear in court on Dec. 1, the Hawks, an elite police unit, said in a statement on Saturday. Their ...Read more

The family of Anna Kepner is baffled that no one has yet to be charged in the high school senior’s murder aboard a Carnival cruise ship, even though her stepbrother is reportedly under investigation.

Kepner’s aunt, Krystal Wright, told Fox 35 Orlando this week that the family is in “turmoil” as they’re “just sitting here waiting” ...Read more

A Japanese singer was forced to stop her performance in Shanghai on Friday as the fallout from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan continues to sour ties between Asia’s two largest economies.

Maki Otsuki — known for the theme song to the popular anime "One Piece" — was forced to interrupt her show at an event in the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Westfield Valley Fair reopened at noon Saturday after a shooting Friday night sent three people to the hospital and hundreds running for their lives on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The incident, which police said was potentially gang-related, happened around 5:40 p.m. Friday on the second floor of the ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — She’s never been the patient kind. But after her husband was taken by the U.S. Border Patrol on Nov. 18, all Esmeralda Escobar can do is wait.

Escobar reads her Bible whenever she thinks of Moises Benitez Diaz, just like he told her to do. To stay patient, she’s clinging to Psalm 25: “Let me not be ashamed. Let not my ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan green card holder detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than three months was released to reunite with his disabled son just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

When Heury Gomez returned home on Nov. 22, he said is first order of business was eating a decent meal, then seeing his mother and 18-year-...Read more

NEW YORK — Immigrant advocates stopped a large-scale federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency operation near Canal Street Saturday by blocking the entrance to a Chinatown garage where the masked agents had gathered, temporarily preventing them from leaving, officials and advocates said.

ICE agents needed to call in the New York ...Read more