U.S. and Chinese representatives discussed TikTok, trade and the economy during a day of high-level talks in Madrid, a senior Treasury official said, as diplomacy between the world’s two biggest economies intensifies.

A U.S. delegation helmed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and a Chinese group led ...Read more

An Alaska fund has raised $3.5 million as it seeks to replace federal funding rescinded by Congress for public radio and television stations.

Amid fundraising efforts, station leaders say they are already beginning to cut some programming.

At the request of President Donald Trump, Congress in July voted to rescind $1 billion in federal funding...Read more

MIAMI — A neurologist was fired from the University of Miami on Saturday after sharing a post about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Dr. Michelle Bravo posted on her Instagram story a screenshot of a post by another user on X about Kirk’s assassination, according to The Miami Hurricane, the university’s student ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A 14-year-old student was arrested last week after he threatened to “shoot up” his school in northern Minnesota.

On Sept. 11 a few minutes after 3 p.m., authorities were alerted by the Nevis Public School that a student had threatened to bring a gun to the school, according to a statement from Hubbard County Sheriff Cory ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Dozens gathered outside the cruise terminal at the Port of Baltimore on Sunday to protest the alleged detention and deportation of four Filipino seafarers that were taken from a Carnival ship while it was docked in Baltimore last week.

According to Marino PH, the largest maritime community in the Philippines, the four seafarers ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For 20 hours a day, seven days a week, a security robot rolls around the old Kansas City Star building on the 1600 block of McGee Street, like the 21st century version of a street patrolling beat cop.

No, the robot is not an employee of the Kansas City Police Department. But, in some ways, the white, bullet-shaped, sub-5-...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced that baby Eastern copperheads will start becoming more active as the weather becomes cooler and milder.

This brown, camouflaged venomous pit viper is found throughout much of Maryland and can be seen wriggling around forests and swamps this time of year.

Copperheads tend to ...Read more

CHICAGO — A Chicago day laborer arrested by immigration officials as part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” campaign filed a petition in federal court Sunday asking a judge to bar his deportation and release him on bond.

Willian Alberto Giménez González, who came to Chicago from Venezuela in 2023, was detained ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of people gathered this afternoon in Minneapolis for the memorial of Harper Moyski, the 10-year-old girl killed in the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church.

Green and blue ribbons fluttered from the arms of benches at the Lake Harriet Bandshell, a quiet show of remembrance. Many of those gathered wore the ...Read more

SpaceX is lending a hand to fellow commercial cargo company Northrop Grumman once again with a planned launch Sunday evening on the Space Coast to send supplies to the International Space Station that could also bring a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket is slated to lift off on the NG-23 resupply mission to the ISS with ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased its forecast chances that a tropical wave in the Atlantic would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the wave in far eastern Atlantic was producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

“...Read more