A California teen who walked off a cliff while experiencing altitude-related hallucinations on the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states has begun a slow recovery but remains in a medically induced coma, his family said.

Early this month, Zane Wach, 14, ascended Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada with his father, Ryan, an experienced hiker, ...Read more

Kansas will have new laws affecting child care, sex education, public health agencies and more that go into effect starting Tuesday, July 1, 2025.

During the 2025 legislative session, elected officials passed 129 bills. While Gov. Laura Kelly, who’s a Democrat, vetoed 19 bills, Kansas’ Republican supermajority overrode all but five of them....Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the highly anticipated murder trial who is accused of killing four University of Idaho college students, accepted a plea deal, NewsNation first reported.

A victim’s family member told The Idaho Statesman that they received a letter, and provided the letter to the Statesman, confirming the plea ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A remote, state-run facility in the Everglades constructed for immigrant detainees is slated to open Tuesday with a visit from President Donald Trump, as Gov. Ron DeSantis tries to place Florida at the forefront of the federal government’s mass deportation campaign.

DeSantis, who is expected to join Trump on Tuesday ...Read more

MIAMI — The twin Alexander brothers will have to stand trial for a sexual assault in which, prosecutors say, they took turns raping a woman as their friend pinned her down eight years ago.

On Monday, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean denied the requests of Oren and Alon Alexander and Ohad Fisherman to throw out the sexual battery case....Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade and Broward community leaders and activists said Monday they are sending a letter to President Donald Trump asking for a sit-down to discuss the recent decision by the administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.

North Miami Beach Councilwoman Mary Estimé-Irvin called the administration’s decision �...Read more

DENVER — A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal article published last week in Royal Society Open Science.

Scientists have named the speedy, dog-sized dinosaur Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, according to the article. Its skeleton, or what fossil hunters could ...Read more

Tropical Storm Barry disintegrated after striking Mexico early Monday morning while the National Hurricane Center continued to forecast the season’s next tropical depression or storm could form off the coast of Florida later this week.

In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said an area of low pressure could develop off either ...Read more

The UK’s Prince William has reportedly dropped a donor to his annual charity polo match who was allegedly peddling access to him and his wife, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton.

The Royal Charity Polo Cup tournament cut ties with millionaire Minerva Mondejar Steiner after The Times of London reported Sunday that the art gallery owner was ...Read more

You won't see the "Hershey" crew filming in Western Pennsylvania any longer.

After filming in and around Pittsburgh across roughly six weeks, the Mark Waters-directed movie has completed its camerawork and moved on to post-production, The Hershey Company announced in a Monday news release. The film is slated for a 2026 release.

The biopic ...Read more

A judge overseeing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s restrictions on automatic birthright citizenship asked the U.S. government to confirm it won’t seek to deport impacted children during the Supreme Court’s 30-day pause on enforcement of the directive.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland said during a hearing Monday ...Read more

Tuesday marks the first day of July — and when some new California laws take effect.

One law that won’t be going into effect as planned, though: state-mandated insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization. Legislators pushed the start date for that law — which requires state-regulated health insurance plans to cover IVF and other ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Harvard University’s talks with the White House have stalled, according to a person familiar with the matter, threatening a quick resolution to a standoff that’s endangering the school’s finances and upending foreign student plans.

A potential deal was knocked off course last week although hopes remain for an accord, said ...Read more

A magical Disney cruise experience turned nightmarish after a young girl fell overboard — and her dad leaped off the ship, too.

The Disney Dream ship was en route to dock Sunday at Port Everglades following a four-day sail to the Bahamas and a stop at Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point, the cruise line’s private island, when the fall occurred,...Read more

ATLANTA — Hundreds of new Georgia laws take effect this week after being adopted by the state’s Republican-led Legislature.

Some — like a law restricting transgender students from playing on school sports teams that don’t match the gender they are assigned at birth — mirror President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Others are aimed at ...Read more

The Trump administration is using Haiti’s “widespread” gang violence, along with the State Department’s recent decision to designate several of the country’s most powerful armed groups as “foreign terrorists,” to justify ending temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living and working in the United ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday issued a hand-written note to Fed Chief Jerome Powell demanding he cut interest rates in a new escalation of their feud.

Trump scrawled the to “Jerome” note as he piles pressure on the powerful central banker to agree to dramatically cut rates or step down before his term is up next May.

“Jerome – You are,...Read more

SEATTLE — Wild orcas on more than 30 occasions in four oceans have attempted to share their prey with people, potentially to develop relationships with humans, researchers have found.

In each of the instances recorded over two decades, orcas approached a person within a length of the orca’s body, and dropped freshly hunted prey in front of ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury started deliberating the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday, with a possible life sentence on the line for the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder.

The anonymous eight men and four women on the panel got the case at 11:30 a.m. after hearing an instruction on the law from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For "Grease" fans in Los Angeles, recent summer nights had a surprise in store. We'll tell you more, tell you more.

John Travolta, who brought life to bad boy heartthrob Danny Zuko in the 1978 classic, crashed the Hollywood Bowl's sing-along event Friday. He surprised not just the audience, but also fellow "Grease" alumni as he ...Read more