Megan Waiters can recite the stories of dozens of people she has helped connect to the internet in western Alabama. A 7-year-old who couldn’t do classwork online without a tablet, and the 91-year-old she taught to check health care portals on a smartphone.

“They have health care needs, but they don’t have the digital skills,” said ...Read more

Just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 14, engines roared in a Landover, Maryland, shopping center parking lot as a crowd gathered to watch souped-up cars spin in tight circles under the glow of streetlights. Then one car lost control.

Police say the white Infiniti sedan careened into a woman standing nearby, throwing her against another car. Police ...Read more

For years, Western leaders have debated the creation of a regional energy market: a coordinated grid to pool solar power in Arizona, wind in Wyoming, hydro in Washington and battery storage in California.

The shared resources would meet the demands of 11 different states, bolstering utilities’ local power plants with surplus energy from ...Read more

CHANDLER, Ariz. — Art Martinez has seen the power of ceremony.

Martinez, a clinical psychologist and member of the Chumash Tribe, helped run an American Indian youth ceremonial camp. Held at a sacred tribal site in Northern California, it was designed to help kids’ mental health. He remembers a 14-year-old girl who had been struggling ...Read more

People all across California will dive under desks Thursday at 10:16 a.m. Pacific time to take cover.

That’s not a prediction of a major earthquake. Rather, it’s part of increasingly popular statewide and international earthquake preparedness event.

The Great California Shakeout is a one-minute drill in which people at more than 9,000 ...Read more

The University of Pennsylvania’s faculty senate Wednesday joined a growing chorus of concern over the compact proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration, voting overwhelmingly to urge Penn’s leaders to reject it “and any other proposal that similarly threatens our mission and values.”

The one-page document passed by the ...Read more

At least two law enforcement experts with deep experience in police reform efforts are emerging as possible contenders to become Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s choice for NYPD commissioner should he win next month’s election, the Daily News has learned.

The two potential picks — Rodney Harrison and Isa Abbassi — both ...Read more

A coalition of mostly Republican-run states has filed a joint brief in support of an effort to immediately block transgender athletes in Minnesota from competing in girls sports while a federal lawsuit debating the matter is litigated through the courts.

Attorneys general in 19 states argued in a brief filed Tuesday that Minnesota’s bylaw ...Read more

After two weeks of uncertainty, active duty military are reportedly receiving their Oct. 15 paychecks.

About 1.3 million service members and thousands of activated National Guard members and reservists are expected to receive their mid-month deposits by Wednesday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that Coast Guard members, who ...Read more

NEW YORK — Women abused by Jeffrey Epstein sued Bank of America and Bank of New York Mellon in Manhattan on Wednesday, alleging their executives violated banking laws and ignored red flags out of “absolute loyalty” to the deceased financier and disregard for victims of his child sex-trafficking ring.

The suits, brought on behalf of an ...Read more

The Trump administration was barred from using federalized National Guard troops from Oregon or other states to conduct operations in Portland for another two weeks under a ruling issued Wednesday by a federal judge.

U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut extended two temporary restraining orders against President Donald Trump’s effort to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he might go to the Supreme Court to personally watch oral arguments on whether the bulk of his tariffs pass legal muster, in what would be a highly unusual spectacle.

“I think I’m going to go to the Supreme Court to watch it,” Trump told reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office. “I’ve not done ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plane was forced to make an unscheduled landing in the UK after suffering a cracked windshield, according to the Pentagon.

Hegseth was heading back to the U.S. from Belgium when the incident occurred off southern Ireland. The plane reported the 7700 code, indicating a general emergency, lowered its altitude to...Read more

BOSTON — The Kennedy family, friends and Boston community gathered Wednesday to reflect on the life and legacy of Joan Kennedy after her passing last week — remembering her love of music, perseverance through challenges and widespread inspiration.

“I admire my mother so much for the way that she faced up to her challenges with courage, ...Read more

A missing $4 million, a $10 million loan installment coming due with no money to pay for it and whether former State Election Commission director Howard Knapp misrepresented the price of buying new machines for the state in 2024.

Those were three questions about a $28 million purchase for machines to count voter’s ballots aired Wednesday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The man accused of intentionally igniting the devastating Palisades fire, which killed a dozen people, has been indicted on three felony charges and faces the prospect of up to 45 years in prison, authorities said.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, was arrested Oct. 7 and charged with destruction of property by means of fire for ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A political action committee aligned with opponents of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is accusing him of deleting work-related texts and other phone records from his cell phone in violation of state law.

Frey maintains he’s done nothing wrong and has the backing of the city attorney. Experts contacted for this story have varied ...Read more

Hundreds of people were being evacuated from the Western Alaska village of Kipnuk Wednesday after residents were told to pack a single bag and leave the community, one of the hardest hit by a catastrophic storm that deluged swaths of the Yukon-Kuskokwim region over the weekend.

The storm left housing uninhabitable and utilities inoperable in ...Read more

Israel threatened to resume attacks on Gaza if Hamas does not go through with all the steps outlined in U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the military to prepare for the “complete defeat of Hamas in Gaza” if the militant group, deemed a terrorist organization in the U.S. and the EU, ...Read more

ATLANTA — A jail that was once at the center of a controversy about the standard of gynecological care received by immigrant women is once again receiving immigrant detainees, a Department of Homeland Security official told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday.

The Irwin County Detention Center erupted into the national discourse in ...Read more