Current News
/ArcaMax
Kyiv hosts allies to hash out security guarantees, investment
Kyiv hosted national security advisers from its top allies for talks on security guarantees and economic support for Ukraine as part of the global effort to end Russia’s four-year invasion.
More than a dozen NSAs from European countries, Canada and offices of the European Council, European Commission and NATO held talks focused on three ...Read more
Swiss prosecutor opens criminal probe of bar owners after fire
Valais public prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the operators of Le Constellation Bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, after the fatal fire that broke out on New Year's Eve.
Following the initial investigation conducted by the Valais public prosecutor’s office, a criminal investigation into negligent homicide and bodily ...Read more
Real big fish: Rose Parade float sets Guinness World Record
LOS ANGELES — In the pantheon of parade float achievement, world-record titles are coveted.
The longest parade float, a paper dragon in Gutian, China, spanned a half-mile in 2012. The heaviest, dubbed the "Gnarly Crankin' K9 Wave Maker," was an actual swimming pool on wheels that weighed in at nearly 150,000 pounds.
Faced with some stiff ...Read more
Trump says US to 'run Venezuela' in interim after Maduro
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela until a transition could be organized, hours after a U.S. operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power after months of mounting military and economic pressure on his regime.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and ...Read more
Flights canceled across Caribbean after US raid in Venezuela
U.S. military operations in Venezuela are upending travel in the Caribbean just as many vacationers are trying to get home from their winter breaks.
Vacation hot spots such as Barbados, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Antigua, Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago were all reporting flight cancellations or delays Saturday due to the military activity.
Puerto ...Read more
Billionaire tax proposal sparks soul-searching for Californians
The fiery debate about a proposed ballot measure to tax California’s billionaires has sparked some soul-searching across the state.
While the idea of a one-time tax on more than 200 people has a long way to go before getting onto the ballot and would need to be passed by voters in November, the tempest around it captures the zeitgeist of ...Read more
Trump says Maduro captured after US airstrikes hit Venezuela
President Donald Trump said the U.S. captured President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of Venezuela after a series of airstrikes, an extraordinary escalation in his months-long campaign against the country.
“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas ...Read more
Waymo is coming. How will robocars deal with wintry Minneapolis roads?
MINNEAPOLIS — News that robotaxi company Waymo is planning an expansion into Minneapolis was met with excitement in some corners, trepidation in others — and one big question:
How is that going to work in a Minnesota winter?
Minnesota drivers are accustomed to wintry roads. Less clear is how well driverless cars can handle ice and snow of ...Read more
From timber wars to cannabis crash: Scotia's battle to survive as California's last company town
The last time Mary Bullwinkel and her beloved little town were in the national media spotlight was not a happy period. Bullwinkel was the spokesperson for the logging giant Pacific Lumber in the late 1990s, when reporters flooded into this often forgotten corner of Humboldt County to cover the timber wars and visit a young woman who had staged a...Read more
News briefs
Denver homicides fall nearly 50% to 11-year low as overall crime plunges
Denver’s homicides fell nearly 50% to an 11-year low in 2025, plunging to levels rarely seen over the last three decades as crime overall largely declined across the city.
Thirty-seven people were killed in Denver in 2025, the third-lowest number on record for any year ...Read more
Massachusetts father who sued school district over kindergarten books with LGBTQ characters scores win in court
A local father who sued a school district because he wants his 5-year-old son kept away from books with LGBTQ characters has scored a win in court.
A Boston federal judge recently granted a preliminary injunction for the father, Alan L., whose son J.L. attends kindergarten in Lexington Public Schools.
The judge ordered that the school district...Read more
Massive brawl erupts in New Haven courtroom as murder suspect faces charges
Chaos erupted this week in a Connecticut courthouse, where a 21-year-old man was arraigned for the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend in East Haven.
Tyreek Black appeared in a New Haven courtroom on Wednesday after being arrested for the Tuesday morning murder of 21-year-old Destiny Rumley. The defendant had allegedly confessed to the killing in ...Read more
NYC Mayor Mamdani defends revoking Adams antisemitism executive order amid criticism
Under fire from an array of Jewish and pro-Israel groups, Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his decision to revoke an executive order issued by his predecessor under which New York City adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.
Eric Adams, whose term ended at midnight Wednesday, issued the ...Read more
NYC Mayor Mamdani begins term by wiping out 15 months of Adams' orders
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rescinded all executive orders issued by his predecessor over the last 15 months as part of a flurry of actions as the city’s new leader took office Jan. 1.
The directive revoked all executive orders former mayor Eric Adams had issued since Sept. 26, 2024, the day he was indicted on federal corruption ...Read more
What to know as Minnesota faces another deadline over its high school transgender athlete policy
The Trump administration’s latest deadline for Minnesota to change its rule that allows transgender girls to participate in high school girls sports appears to expire Jan. 2, yet exactly what happens next — and when — has not yet been determined.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Sept. 30 declared ...Read more
For first time, Gov. Jared Polis skips year-end pardons and commutations for convicted Coloradans
For the first time in his tenure, Gov. Jared Polis did not end the year by granting clemency to any individuals convicted of crimes in Colorado.
It had become an annual holiday tradition for the governor in late December to fully pardon or commute the sentences for Coloradans convicted of a wide variety of offenses.
But the Christmas and New ...Read more
More Venezuela-bound oil ships U-turn amid US blockade
More oil tankers are turning away from Venezuela as the U.S. threatens to seize vessels transporting oil that helps fund the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.
At least seven ships have reversed course or halted at sea, according to ship movements tracked Friday by Bloomberg. That adds to four others that turned away in the immediate ...Read more
Denver homicides fall nearly 50% to 11-year low as overall crime plunges
Denver’s homicides fell nearly 50% to an 11-year low in 2025, plunging to levels rarely seen over the last three decades as crime overall largely declined across the city.
Thirty-seven people were killed in Denver in 2025, the third-lowest number on record for any year since 1990, according to records kept by the Denver Police Department. ...Read more
Flu surge prompts masking mandates at Eastern Shore hospitals
BALTIMORE — Several Eastern Shore hospitals have reinstated masking mandates this week, joining a growing number of health care centers in Maryland reporting unusually high numbers of influenza cases.
On Friday, TidalHealth announced that protective masking is required at its locations, which include TidalHealth Peninsula Regional in ...Read more
Mayor Kaohly Her pledges to 'always show up' for St. Paul in inaugural address
MINNEAPOLIS — Mayor Kaohly Her launched a new era of leadership in St. Paul with an inaugural pledge to fight both national and local challenges, from what she described as a “hostile” federal administration to a billion dollars in city maintenance needs.
And she plans to do that while keeping residents’ concerns at the forefront.
“...Read more
Popular Stories
- Trump says Maduro captured after US airstrikes hit Venezuela
- Charlotte-area teen charged with planning ISIS-inspired New Year's Eve attack
- Pancreatic cancer is among the deadliest cancers. A new drug being tested at Penn is giving patients and doctors hope
- NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin makes first public comments since fire killed his dad, injured his mom
- Billionaire tax proposal sparks soul-searching for Californians
Comics
