LOS ANGELES — A woman who was mauled by a dog at a Los Angeles city animal shelter has been awarded $5.4 million by a jury.

Genice Horta, 51, said that neither the shelter nor the rescue group she worked for told her the dog, a Belgian Malinois named Maximus, had bitten a teenager and a shelter employee, sending both to the hospital.

After ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the wake of Winter Storm Fern, some Central Kentucky residents say they’re seeing high utility bills they either can’t afford or which caught them off guard.

Among them is Emma Moore, a Kentucky Utilities customer. When Moore recently opened her bill, mailed Feb. 10, she was astonished by what she was being charged for...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Faculty at Florida’s colleges and universities may soon be able to carry guns on campus as part of state lawmakers’ planned expansion of the school guardian program.

Lawmakers first created the program after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in which a gunman killed 17 people, including ...Read more

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called an early election for March 24, betting a popularity boost from a standoff with Donald Trump over Greenland will help secure her another term in office.

The move comes after the U.S. president revived claims over the Arctic territory in early January, causing a diplomatic rift with Europe. The...Read more

NEW YOKR — A suspect has been arrested for the giant snowball fight in Washington Square Park that left two cops hurt — an incident Mayor Zohran Mamdani said should not result in criminal charges, angering NYPD officials.

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was nabbed by police early Thursday after he was identified as one of four men shown in social ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran started a third round of nuclear talks on Thursday with days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline for a deal.

The two parties have been locked in a tense, months-long standoff over the Islamic Republic’s atomic activities and are negotiating through mediator Oman at its embassy in Geneva, the semi-official Iranian...Read more

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb. 24, 2026, doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. He asserted that “the cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant.”

These pronouncements follow the January 2026 FBI seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, ...Read more

I’ve been living in Minneapolis and working on my doctoral dissertation about local religious communities since 2019.

It’s given me a chance to personally witness how the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by police officers, and the surge in federal law enforcement presence have fostered grassroots ...Read more

Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers him the first pope. Martyred in Rome in the first century, Peter asked to be crucified upside down so that he would not die in the same ...Read more

In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen.

Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through geological reactions that occur normally within the Earth’s crust, meaning it costs nothing to make – though it costs some amount ...Read more

In Colorado, from 2016 to 2020, 33 women who were pregnant or had recently given birth died from accidental overdoses. That’s more than died from traditional obstetric complications like infection, high blood pressure or bleeding combined.

More recent data shows an encouraging turnaround. The number of maternal overdose deaths ...Read more

Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. counterpart Donald Trump discussed potential next steps in peace talks.

Dozens of people including children were injured in Russian strikes on eight regions of the country involving 420 drones and 39 missiles, Zelenskyy ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police officer who said he was too injured to complete any work was not too injured to jump out of airplanes, prosecutors allege.

Christopher Brandon Carnahan, 43, of Norwalk has been charged with two counts of felony insurance fraud after going skydiving multiple times in Lake Elsinore and working out at a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than 40 years, a former president will appeal directly before Congress to fend off criminal allegations.

Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Oversight Committee this week in its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ...Read more

Ten Democratic-leaning states are using their own money to help people buy Obamacare health plans, at least partially replacing the federal tax credits that expired at the end of last year.

The state assistance, some of it offered through programs that existed before the federal subsidies expired, is helping hundreds of thousands of people ...Read more

States are scrambling to meet rising demand for newly expanded school choice initiatives, pouring more money into the programs as waiting lists — and budget concerns — grow.

A further boost is expected next year, when the federal government rolls out a new policy allowing taxpayers to claim a tax credit for up to $1,700 in donations to ...Read more

Is reality finally settling in on Capitol Hill? The nation can only hope.

As the national debt rushes toward $39 trillion, and Social Security and Medicare get nearer to insolvency with each tick of the clock, pressure mounts on the White House and Congress to craft a more sustainable path forward. After decades of apathy — which has pushed ...Read more

MOJAVE DESERT — The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs.

But it is imperiled in California thanks in part to an unusual predator: off-road vehicles that race through thousands of miles of trails — official and unofficial �...Read more

After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long been part of her life, but something deeper, more distracting.

“Every little ache, like my knee hurts,” she said, made her worry that “this is the end of the road for me.”

So Zapp, a 40-...Read more